Maching a character in two strings

[Anon]

Hey, I'm writing a quick application to make a one .txt file into few colums.
The text file is taken from: when you go to DOS: type :
DIR /S > filename.txt it dump all directory list
I need to create 5 colums, each row will start with : directory name: I divided everything to strings, Now I want to dive it it into rows.
The question is: Each time a string contain " :\ " I want that string to go to a next row ( line )
How do I find character in a string?
i tried while loop ( while ($string==':) but it's not working ( I'm not soo advenced in PHP .
Any help would be great, please🙂 heh thnx
Lukas

[pnoeric]

Lukas, try using the explode statement, which will break your file into an array of strings, one for each line starting with ":". Or, you could do a string replace to change the ":" into a newline character. Check out the URLs php.net/string and php.net/explode and browse around a bit there, you might find what you're after in the notes that people have contributed.

best,
Eric