help reading a text file

Yabbalina

Hello,
I am new to all of this and need some help. I have a script that writes to a .txt file no problem, what I need to do now is have another script read the contents of that text file.

This is what I have so far:

<?php
$FilePointer = fopen("test.txt", "r");

while (!feof($FilePointer))
{
$line = fgets($FilePointer,4096);
print $line
;
}
fclose($FilePointer);

and it reads the file no problem, but it comes in as one long sentence, it doesn't give me line breaks, or paragraph breaks or special characters. Can someone steer me in the right direction?

Thanks for the help!

psy

$arr=file("test.txt");
for( $i=0; $i<count($arr); $i++ )
{
  echo $arr[$i] . "<br>\n";
}

that should work

Yabbalina

thanks for helping,

though now I am getting this error message:

Parse error: parse error, expecting `';'' in pop.php on line 4

any ideas?

Thanks!

Yabbalina

this is what it looks like:

<?php
$arr=file("test.txt");

for($i=0;$i<count($arr);$i++);

{

__echo$arr[$i]._"<br>\n";

}
?>

where line 4 is the "for" statement

thanks!

psy

you put a ; at the end of the for(x;x;x) statement, take that out and it should work 🙂

or you can just copy/paste this

for( $i=0; $i<count($arr); $i++ ){
 echo $arr[$i] . "<br>";
}

Yabbalina

Hi,
Sorry to be a putz, but I'm still having trouble.....

this is what I have now:

$arr=file("test.txt");

for($i=0;$i<count($arr);$i++){

echo$arr[$i]."<br>";

}

and this is the error I'm getting....

Parse error: parse error, expecting `';'' in pop.php on line 4

Thanks for helping me with this, I think it's expecting a ";" though I have no idea where to put it.....

psy

<?
$arr=file("test.txt");
for($i=0;$i<count($arr);$i++){
	echo $arr[$i] . "<br>\n";
}
?>

copy/paste that exactly 🙂 i tested it this time, it shouldnt error, if it still has a parse error, then post your code here with the php tags around it "[(php)]" & "[(/php)]" <- without the ()'s

Yabbalina

thanks for walking me through this....

here is my code, without the open close brackets <>

?php

$arr=file("test.txt");

for($i=0;$i<count($arr);$i++){

echo $arr[$i] . "<br>";

}

thanks again