Preg_match to match a Whaaa??

[jkewlo]

Hey!, So i seen the reg area here and have been posting in the php help section, well anyways, what I want to do is grab certain lines from a txt file

 

the text file is like this

 

501#

A potion made from ground Red Herbs that restores ^000088about 45 HP^000000.

^ffffff_^000000

Weight :^777777 7^000000

#

 

the 501 is the ID it also matches the ID in the mysql table

then the description which is really what i want to grab via the id the weight i dont really care about being it is already in the database. where the description is not.

 

I was told to use preg_match

 

this is what I have

$file = file_get_contents('idnum2itemdesctable.txt');
$array = explode("". $row->id ."", $file);

$random = rand(1 + 6 - 5, count($array));
$desc = $array[$random];

which will display at random. but I need it to display by the ID as shown above.

 

if anyone can show me a example that would be awesome

[.josh]

thread closed. You already have a thread asking the same question.  The answer was already given to you, to boot.  Go back and reread it.  Again.  And again.