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[Lloyd Bayley]

Hi people, back again...

Got some help this today (tnx Curt) from the list but for another chunk of
the code I'm doing...

Now, I can't seem to get the following code to work...
Have included some sample lines from the datafile (acc.txt)

No matter what I do, it always returns "not here" even if there is a
match....very frustrating!

Any ideas?

Lloyd. :-)


---- Code Begin -----

<?php

$name_to_write = "user1";
$names = file("acc.txt");

if (in_array($name_to_write, $names))
{
echo "hello";
}
else
{
echo "not here";
}
?>

---- Code Finish ----

--- Sample Data Begin ---

user1 26:48:59 6 logins 4:28:09 hrs/login
user2 19:07:50 33 logins 0:34:46 hrs/login
user3 12:12:04 18 logins 0:40:40 hrs/login

--- Sample Data End ---

[Burhan Khalid]

On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, 9:08:25 AM, Lloyd wrote:

[ snip ]

LB> No matter what I do, it always returns "not here" even if there is a
LB> match....very frustrating!

LB> Any ideas?

Echoing what Mike said (about the preprocessing), here is some code to
help you out :

$search = "user1";
if (!($names = file("acc.txt"))) { die("Could not open acc.txt"); }
while (list($key,$val) = each($names)) {
$bits = explode(" ",$val);
while(list(,$line) = explode($bits)) {
if ($line == $search) {
echo "here";
} else { echo "whoops ... MIA"; }
}
}

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Burhan Khalid
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