can't parse a tagged text file

[mgagne]

Hi...

can someone tell me while the code below won't correctly parse a delimited file set up like:

file:
<url>
http://www.test.com
</url>
<blurb>
This is some text.

More text.
</blurb>

code:
while ( ! feof( $newsfile ) )
{
$line = fgets( $newsfile, 1024 );
if ($line == "<url>")
{
$line = fgets( $newsfile, 1024);
$url_val = $line;
}
if ($line == "<blurb>")
{
while ( $line != "</blurb>")
{
$blurb_val = $blurb_val . $line;
$line = fgets( $newsfile, 1024 );
}
}
}

note that the file handle $newfile is successfully opened.

thanks!

[saronoff]

The first thing I would do is "trim" the lines using the function of the same name especially if you're matching exactly, as you are. If there are trailing spaces you won't match. So that's the first thing to try.

Also, you may want to look into using something a little more flexible like preg_match.