How can I parse logs?

[FoxhoundX]

I have logs from an online game which I would like to be able to select, and then the script would go through and select any lines with certain words in them (Curses in this case), and then display them with the Curses bolded. I have no clue where to start...

I am guessing I would need to explode using a \n and then do a substr, if a swear is found, it echos that string?, then at the end, do an eregi_replace with each word and the bolded version?

😉

[steadyguy]

Or you could just use the much faster str_replace() on the whole log:

$log = //put your file here in any way you please
$search = array('curse', 'curses', 'Curse', 'Curses');
$replace = array('<strong>curse</strong>', 
    '<strong>curses</strong>',
    '<strong>Curse</strong>',
    '<strong>Curses</strong>');
$newLog = str_replace($search, $replace, $log);