[Resolved] n00b needs help with strings.

[usaindp1776]

I'm a complete n00b. I need some help.

I have a bunch of text in a file. What I want to do is parse the file and pull out the portion "Page 1 of XX" (where XX is a variable number). How can I isolate this information and place at least the XX in a variable?

Thanks in advance.

--Bryan

[scoppc]

Well, there are many ways to accomplish that. You can use filesystem functions such as [man]fopen[/man], [man]fread[/man] to retrieve the content of that file.
Assuming the content of that file is "page 1 of 54", you can do the following:

<?php
$file="file.txt";
$fp=fopen($file,"r");
$content=fread($fp,filesize($file));
fclose($fp);
//$content contains the content of the file (obviously)
$exp=explode(" ",$content);
print_r($exp);
?>

[intenz]

This should work...

$text = implode( '', file( 'file.txt' ) );
ereg( 'Page 1 of ([0-9]+)', $text, $match );
$pagenumber = $match[1];
echo $pagenumber;

Now $pagenumber has the pagenumber.