Help string from text file

[jjharr]

Hello, I need to get php to scan a txt file and find this line
04/08/2003 10005-71190-0403

The Date will change, the data I need in the string is 10005 and 0403. The 10005 could be 57463 in the next file or 10003 in the next etc.. etc..

I have had some success with
$datA = split ("^M", $contents);
$thisid = substr($datA[0], 74, 5);

But the 10005 isn't always at the same location.

Any ideas?

[jjharr]

04/08/2003 10005-71190-0403 format would be in every file. Is there a way to search for the - - so that no matter where this is in a file, I can grab the first 5 numbers after the date no matter that the numbers are?

[OhLordy]

I think the following regex should find a string of the form 2 numbers a / 2 numbers a / 4 numbers a space 5 numbers a - 5 number a - and then 4 numbers Is that what you're looking for?

"([[:num:]]{2})/([[:num:]]{2})/([[:num:]]{4}) ([[:num:]]{5})-([[:num:]]{5})-([[:num:]]{4})"

Rob

[jjharr]

Thanks for the reply Sir Lordy! Can you give me some example code, I keep getting regex errors. I've been at this tooo long today.

[jjharr]

Got a new error..
REG_ECTYPE
The regular expression referred to an invalid character class name.

Any ieas on what it's boggle is?

[jjharr]

Thanks for all the help! I got what I needed with . .

if (ereg ("([0-9]{5})-([0-9]{5})-([0-9]{4})", $contents, $regs)) {
echo "$regs[3].$regs[2].$regs[1]";
}

Thanks again.

Jamie