Search text file for string

Anon

I want to be able to search an ascii txt file for a string which will follow a certain format, in this instance
Q999999 (where Q is always at the start of the string which is then follow by 6 numbers).

When this format of string is found I want to copy this string alone into a variabl which I can then write to a variable.

I've tried using eregi but I'm a little to novice with it to be effective.

Those of you who are M$ users will probably have spotted the format is MS Knowledge base ID's, I'm trying to automate some of the patching within my network.

If I get this done expect the results to be published at http://sourceforge.net/ for all to freely use and abuse.

Thanks all

retoknaak

This regex should work:

"/Q(\d){6}/"

Anon

Could you include a little of the surrounding code, doesn't seem to work when slotted into my bad code.

-------Here my current code---------
<?
$edit_text="";

$fp = fopen ("WACKADAY.txt","r");
$foundit = false;
while ($data = fgets ($fp, 100)) {

// once format is found, add lines to array
if ($foundit =="true") {
$edit_text[1] = $data;
}

// closing tag, so out of here
if(strstr($data,"P")) {
break;
}

// opening tag, so set switch
IF (eregi ("Q[0-9]{6}", $data, $regs)) {
$foundit = true;
}

}
fclose ($fp);

//Not the format I'm going to use but it'll do for testing.
echo "<TEXTAREA>$edit_text</TEXTAREA>";

//Just a dump of the $data var to see what actually did go in it
echo $data;

?>

I should point out that this is taken from an example of using eregi that someone else posted and I am modifying for my own purposes.

Here the file it's searching through:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

WACKADAY (212.25.225.42)

* WINDOWS 2000 SP2

Patch NOT Found	MS02-012	Q313450
Patch NOT Found	MS02-013	Q300845

* INTERNET INFORMATION SERVICES 5.0

Patch NOT Found	MS02-012	Q313450

* INTERNET EXPLORER 5.5 SP2

Information
All necessary hotfixes have been applied.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

When the script find a Q number I want to copy that Q999999 into a variable/array.
So $Q1=Q313450
and so on.

retoknaak

Insert this code:

if (preg_match_all("/(Q[0-9]{6})/m", $data, $match)) {
print_r($match);
};

This will print
Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => Q313450 [1] => Q300845 [2] => Q313450 ) [1] => Array ( [0] => Q313450 [1] => Q300845
[2] => Q313450 ) )

eg
$match[0]= Q313450
$match[1]= Q300845

and so on....