Hard code works but variable does not???

t0ny

Hi,
this forum is great, solved two of my problemes yesterday, hope you guys can solve this one..

Ok, i open a text file and read it line by line.
.. in the text file are a list of *.htm names,

eg.

1024.htm
1023.htm
1027.htm

So: after each read i can dump to the screen the name of the file I want to display!

So on my main page to test it, it shows 1024.htm1023.htm1027.htm.

I therefore know it is reading the textfile ok??

ok, so in my main loop i want each line of the text file to be an include, ie.

 include($textfile[$k])

so it will display several diff html files dependant on what is in the text file.

Well it says can't find 1023.htm etc???

If I hard code the loop for example include("1023.htm") I get three 1023.htm's loading so they are there and working, but the include($textfile[$k]) wont work?

I am stumped!!! Only thing I can think of, is that my string is in some weird format somehow??

Thanks for any help
t0ny.

t0ny

Me again:::

Is it anything to do with a character return?
I think that the filenames when i dump them to 
the screen have a space after them ???

trooper

Show us your code that does the looping.

Originally posted by t0ny
Hi,
this forum is great, solved two of my problemes yesterday, hope you guys can solve this one..

Ok, i open a text file and read it line by line.
.. in the text file are a list of *.htm names,

eg.
1024.htm
1023.htm
1027.htm
So: after each read i can dump to the screen the name of the file I want to display!

So on my main page to test it, it shows 1024.htm1023.htm1027.htm.

I therefore know it is reading the textfile ok??

ok, so in my main loop i want each line of the text file to be an include, ie.
 include($textfile[$k])
so it will display several diff html files dependant on what is in the text file.

Well it says can't find 1023.htm etc???
If I hard code the loop for example include("1023.htm") I get three 1023.htm's loading so they are there and working, but the include($textfile[$k]) wont work?
I am stumped!!! Only thing I can think of, is that my string is in some weird format somehow??

Thanks for any help
t0ny. [/B]

t0ny

Ok here is the segment ::

$readfile = file("contents.wne");
for ($k=0; $k<=count($readfile)-1; $k++)
{
$filename = $readfile[$k];
if (file_exists($filename))
{
include($filename);
}
else
{
echo"$filename not found!";
}
//include("1023.htm"); *** If I uncomment include works?
}

t0ny

Ok i have done a substring on the filename killing 2 characters of the arse and it works?

how can I kill/ignore Character return codes as this could be a big problem!??

ajmoore

Use the trim function....it gets rid of trailing characters like new line and carriage returns.

$newString = trim($oldString);

Hope that helps