I think i'm using the syntax incorrectly

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Hi Everyone!

 

I'm new to this forum and a newbie with PHP - I'm glad I found this site - I hope to learn a lot!  For my first and hopefully one of few questions, lol..

 

I told my boss i'd help him out with making a script to sort a txt file he has with 92 pages of e-mail addresses into something organized.  Before i work out how to check for duplicates, so on and so forth - I'm trying to do the basics.  I realise this is wrong

 

<?php
$emails=fopen('test.txt','r');
$newlist=fopen('test2.txt','a');
while(! feof($emails))
{
        $newline=fgets($emails);

        $newchar=fgetc($newline);


        if ($newchar==" ")
                fseek($newlist,0,seek_end);
        else

                {
                $addy = fnmatch ("*@*.*",$newline);

                fwrite($newlist,$addy);
                }
}
?>

 

 

I'm just trying to get the script to store a line in the variable and then go by character until it hits a space and move down to the next line to write the next e-mail it finds - I think the sequence im searching for is also a bit off.  I understand I will need a loop of some sort so all the char's in the $newline character are viewed, can someone please help me out - I feel i'm so close to doing this!

[cags]

Can you give an example (obviously using fake e-mail addresses) or what the file looks like?

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Thanks for the response.

 

Here is an example of what the file looks like.

 

[email protected], [email protected], j123ljkw.com, <[email protected]>[email protected], [email protected]

 

It's basically 92 pages of that.

[mikesta707]

if i wanted to get an array of the different emails (assuming that every single email was seperated by a comma) I would do this

 

$content = file_get_contents('email.txt');
$emails = array();
$emails = explode(',', $content);

array_map("trim", $emails);//this just removes trailing or leading whitespace from all the entries

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what if some of the emails are seperated like this, [email protected], <[email protected]>[email protected], etc ?

[mikesta707]

well as long as every email between the commas is ONE email, than its fine. if you want to take "<[email protected]>[email protected]" and split that into two things, then you will have to change the code up

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I would prefer not to have anything within < > brackets added to the array..

 

I am way over my head with this - sorry if I'm asking some real amature questions..

[mikesta707]

ok, we in that case, you can use regular expressions to replace the brackets, and anything between with nothing. I'm not very good with regex, so I dont want to steer you wrong, but try finding a tutorial on regex.

[gizmola]

Well let's take mikesta707's code and just add a bit:

 

 

$content = file_get_contents('email.txt');
$emails = array();
$emails = explode(',', $content);
$emails = preg_replace('/]*>/', '', $emails);  // strip out all the  from the addresses
array_map("trim", $emails);//this just removes trailing or leading whitespace from all the entries

// Didn't you mention a sort?

sort($emails);

foreach ($emails as $value) {
   // write out to your new file
}

 

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