Regex for files

Kenderized

Sorry about the last post was trying to edit it and it when crazy, anyway

Hello All,

Im wondering if anyone knows of a regex function that works like eregi , but for files instead of strings.

Kenderized

pretty confused on this but would something, like this work?
I forgot to mention Im trying to write this to a function.

function vhost_add ($vhost)
{

 $fp = fopen (file.txt , a+)

     {

         if (eregi ($vhost, $fp))

               {
                     echo "Entry already exists";
                }
         else
                {
                      echo "Entry not present";
                 }

      }

}

this is the gist of what im trying to do, but there is much more that will need to be added, is there an easier way?

Kenderized

Mega

$fp = fopen (file.txt , a+)

{

i think u made a mistake there 😉

and that code makes no sense to me. Just type out what you want to do and I will put u on the right track 🙂

Kenderized

Im trying to open a file on my server and check for the existance of a line within the file lets call it $Account399.

    where $Account399 = "#Acct399"

if it is already present then to exit with the message "Entry already exists"

else if the line does not exist then create it

all future line entries must reference the position of the last written entry and be written after it.

So within the file the end result looks like

#Account399

#Account201

#Account587

etc.

hope this helps. My idea is to use something like egrepi to search for the last written line, but im not familiar with any regular expressions that will find a pattern within a file, rather than a string.

Kenderized

Mega


$file  = implode('', file('file.txt'));

if( preg_match("~#$account~", $file) ){
echo 'match found';

else{

$fo = fopen('file.txt', 'a');
fputs("#$account", $fo);
fclose($fo);

god im rusty at this 😉

try that and report errors to me 🙂

Kenderized

ok the former suggestion isnt working for me,,maybe really what I meant to say was "parse" the file, for a specific line.

the former suggestion, doesnt help when the next entry is made it puts it at the end of the file rather than after the last entry

Kenderized