Finding specific text

[w1ww]

Hey,

 

Imagine that I've a text file like:

 

Name: John Doe
Age: 38
Place of Birth: New York

 

How can I, for example, get the age of the guy?

 

Thanks in advance .

[Pioden]

Learn regular expressions.

 

Read the file into PHP

Use regular expressions to search for "Age:"

Grab the bit afterwards

Close the file

 

Something like that anyway! Regular expressions is your friend - but not fun to learn :'( :'(

[dzelenika]

$person = file('filename');

foreach($person as $data)

{ $arData = explode(':',$data)

  if($arData[0] == 'Age')

  {  echo $arData[1];

  }

}

[MatthewJ]

$person = file('filename');

foreach($person as $data)

{ $arData = explode(':',$data)

  if($arData[0] == 'Age')

  {  echo $arData[1];

  }

}

 

Since there is a space after the colon, I would explode on " " or trim $arData[1]

[dzelenika]

$person = file('filename');

foreach($person as $data)

{ $arData = explode(':',$data)

  if($arData[0] == 'Age')

  {  echo $arData[1];

  }

}

 

Since there is a space after the colon, I would explode on " " or trim $arData[1]

 

Don't use space as delimiter because if you want to know name then and name will bee "exploded".

Rather trim if necessary.