PHP pregGrep

[gordonisnz]

Hi there

Ive got the lines :-

$fl_array = preg_grep("/$search/", file('datafile.dat'));

to grab a file & put it into an array -

the value of my $search is created before this command..

What i want is to have search = 'word && {67|98|35}' etc...

So it searches / greps a line of the datafile if it contains

the word "word" AND the number 67, or
the word "word" AND the number 98, or
the word "word" AND the number 35, etc...

so the file contains lines which only contain that word - and any of those 3 numbers...

Is this the correct format ?

Edit :- Ive tried it & my tests are missing a few lines of data which SHOULD match. (re-checked)

[Weedpacket]

The syntax used by PHP's preg_* functions is described here. It might be simpler to do two preg_grep()s one after the other. One searching for 'word' and the other taking the result of that and searching for '67|98|35'.