I am stumped

[Anon]

Can any one tell me why this script is only pulling the first line of data from the file?

<?php

$file="/var/log/syslog";
$fp=fopen($file, "r");
$content=fread($fp, filesize($file));
$content=explode(" ", $content);

for($i=0;$i<count($content);$i++){
print("$content[0] $content[1] $content[2] $content[7] $content[8] $content[9] $content[16] $content[17]<br>");
}

fclose($fp);
?>

I can't figure it out, it works great but it only gets the first line and repeats it forever.

Thanks,

Ben

[Anon]

try this:
<?

$file="/var/log/syslog";
$content=file($file);

for($i=0;$i<count($content);$i++){
$content[$i]=ereg_replace("\n","<BR>",$content[$i]);
print $content[$i];
}

?>

much better! should wor

[Anon]

Well I can do that, but i am trying to get only certain data out of the line say...

foo bar blah

i only want to pull foo and blah out of the line.

[Anon]

Hi!

Is the format of the file b b b b b without any line breaks?
It seems to me you are just printing the same data over and over again. What you need to do is add a certain number to an offset variable like this:
for ($i=0, $offset=0; $i<sizeof($content);$i++,$offset+=10) {
print $content[1+$offset];
}

where 10 is the number of fields per one line.
Also, your approach will not work if two fields are delimited by a "\n" instead of " ".

Hope this helps,
Stas