help with reading arrays...

[4rxsid]

all,

When I try to load an array with a string that contains spaces, this doesn't work:

$something = array ("apple", "orange", "green bananas", "very hot chilies");

$fp = fopen("test.txt", "r");
$contents = fread($fp, 4096);
fclose($fp);

$testInfo = explode("\n",$contents);

$linecnt = count($testInfo);

for ($cnt=40; $cnt < $linecnt;$cnt++) {
foreach($something as $val) {
if (stristr($testInfo[$cnt],$val)) {
echo $testInfo[$cnt];
}
}
}

green bananas & very hot chilies don't show up properly.

any help?

[jeremuck]

does anything show up?
what if you use in_array(needle[], haystack[])?
have you tried preg_match?

what if you dont' try to compare it?
Does it show up if you just loop through one without comparing it?

Why are you starting on line 40?
maybe the things you are looking for are before line 40.
Maybe the text file is formatted wrong and the two strings are actually on the same line.

[clintonium]

You might want to start $cnt at 0 instead of 40. Once that's adjusted the script spits out the matches from $something that are found in test.txt (though, say, "very" in $something would return "very hot chilies" from test.txt, which you might want to narrow).

Here's the code with tests included:

$something = array( "apple", "orange", "green bananas", "very hot chilies" );
var_dump( $something ); // test 1: array loaded correctly

$fp = fopen( "test.txt", "r" ); 
$contents = fread( $fp, 4096 ); 
fclose( $fp ); 
echo( "$contents" ); // test 2: file read correctly

$testInfo = explode( "\n", $contents ); 
var_dump( $testInfo ); // test 3: contents exploded correctly

$linecnt = count( $testInfo );

for ( $cnt = 0; $cnt <= $linecnt; $cnt++ ) { 
	foreach( $something as $val ) { 
		if ( stristr( $testInfo[$cnt],$val ) ) { 
			echo $testInfo[$cnt]; 
		}
	}
}

If this doesn't help, describe what your goals and unique requirements are so I can better understand what you're trying to do.