associative array (newbie)

[austin]

Hello,

I am currently attempting to feed a text file into an array, split() on ':' and then list ONLY the values of the keys with a particular name. example:

(TEXTFILE.txt)

a:string one
a:string two
b:string three
b:string four

(SCRIPT.php)
?>

$text = file("TEXTFILE.txt");
foreach($text as $key1 => $val1) {
list($key, $value) = split(':',$val1);
$assoc_text[$key] = $value;
if ($key == "a"){
$msg .= "<h2>$value</h2>;
} else {
$msg = "foobar";
}
}
echo $msg;

?>

my outoput is always foobar.

Is this clear enough? Is there another/better way I can do this?
I am very new to php and would appreciate help.

Thanks,
Christopher

[jordy]

try something like this:

$fin = fopen('textfile.txt', 'r');
if ($fin==0) die("unable to open file");
while ($line = fgets($fin, 4096))
list($key, $value) = $line;
fclose($fin);

[Anon]

Thanks. I'll give it a try.