opening file

[Anon]

If I use the file() command to read lines of a file, each line is returned by the line break function attached. This is causing me a problem with something like this

$stuff = file("./somefile.data");

while (n < 50)
{
$details = file("./$stuff($n).data");
$n++;
}

because $stuff has a line break after it and the file cannot be read to details[]
ie it tries to read filecontents .data rather than filecontents.data so an error occurs reading the file

how can I stop this?

[Anon]

use something like

$fp = fopen($file_name);
$contents = fread($fp, filesize($file_name));
fclose($fp)

(syntax may be complete wrong)

but then you can do whatever you want with contents instead of relying on line by line.

i would also suggest that instead of relying on line by line, you have some sort of 'end of line' signafying character, or you don't allow $stuff($n) to have a new line.

it sounds to me like you really have to learn how to use a database though... you have associations based on unique keys (the line number)... this should really be done is something like mysql.