[RESOLVED] possible regexp or fopen issue

[SeenGee]

Hi all, this is really bugging me. I have a regular expression i am running on a text file i am opening, the regexp works in my regexp test suite but not when i run it in php. regular expressions are not my friend so i'm not sure if this is obvious or not but i would really appreciate some help.

In short my regexp should detect any line inside the opened text file - lines.txt - that begins with STRTOMATCH and return the whole line. Nothing is being returned tho unless i make the file 1 line long, is it maybe not detecting the end of lines ??

<?
$filename = "lines.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);
if (preg_match('/^.*(^STRTOMATCH ).*$/', $contents, $regs)) {
	$result = $regs[0];
} else {
	$result = "n";
}
echo $result;
?>

thanks

[sneakyimp]

Do you have an example lines.txt you could post?

[SeenGee]

there you go, this code sample will work when just the first line is left in but not otherwise:

$filename = "lines.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);
if (preg_match('/^.*(^somedomaenq).*$/', $contents, $regs)) {
	$result = $regs[0];
} else {
	$result = "n";
}
echo $result;

[sneakyimp]

You might want to check and make sure that $contents does indeed have all the contents of your file. If you are sure, then try this?

<?
$filename = "lines.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

$pattern = '/^somedoma.*$/m';
$matches = NULL;
preg_match_all($pattern, $contents, $matches);

print_r($matches);
?>

[SeenGee]

$contents did definitely hold the file contents, your solution works though so thats a lot for that. there should only be one occurrence for each searchstr in each file so the match_all seems unnecessary but at this stage i am just happy it works.