Read lines from text file

[mikerh9]

How to read lines from a file? I want to open a file and read each line as string.

TH

[laserlight]

Consider [man]file/man, but you might need to use [man]rtrim/man on each element.

[anthill]

How about:

text.txt
line1: Dog
line2: Cat
line3: Horse
line4: Bird
line5:
.....

<?php
        if (!($fileArray = file("text.txt"))) {
            printf("could not read text.txt file");
        }

$string_one= $fileArray[0]; //will give you Dog
$string_two= $fileArray[1]; //will give you Cat

?>

or you could loop it:

<?
        if (!($fileArray = file("text.txt"))) {
            printf("could not read text.txt file");
        }
		$num=0;
        for ($i=0; $i < count($fileArray); $i++) {
            echo $string[$num] = $fileArray[$i];
        }

?>

[laserlight]

Anthill, in your second example it would be simpler to use $fileArray straight away.

[anthill]

oh yeah! Hehe oops