array_search() issues

[slim_jimmy7]

<?

// standings space delimited file 
$file = "stn/standings.stn"; 

// open file 
$handle = fopen($file, "rb");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($file));

// close file, read everything in between spaces
// omitting the first section header and also
// make sure we replace the new line marker 
fclose($handle);
$contents = preg_replace ('/<TD\s+style="background\s+:\s+#CEDAEB">\r?\n|\r/i','', $contents);
$contents = preg_replace ('/<\/TD>\r?\n|\r/i','', $contents);
$contents = preg_replace ('/<TR\s+style="color\s+:\s+black">\r?\n|\r/i','', $contents);
$contents = preg_replace ('/<!DOCTYPE\s+HTML.*?Qualifying/is','', $contents);
$data = preg_split("/\r?\n|\r/", $contents);
$remove = array("\n", "\r\n", "\r");
$data = str_replace($remove, ' ', $data); 

$drivername = "B Pack";
$key = array_search($drivername, $data);
echo $key;


?>

 

The echo returns nothing, but if I change it to a number, the echo returns a key number.  The array has both numbers and name strings.  I can't figure out what I am doing wrong? Thank you for your help in advance!

[DavidAM]

Are you sure that "B Pack" is in the data? 

 

Maybe it is there are "B Pack " -- particularly since you replaced the newlines with a space, change your str_replace to replace with nothing:

$data = str_replace($remove, ' ', $data);
// change that line to this
$data = str_replace($remove, '', $data);

 

see if that works.

[slim_jimmy7]

That didn't work unfortunately, when I print the array I get this:

 

B Pack is at array #16

 

Array ( [0] => [1] => [2] =>
[3] => style="background : #173D54" [5] => cellpadding="3" [6] => cellspacing="2" [7] => summary=""> [8] => P [9] => # [10] => DRIVER [11] => TIME [12] => [13] => 1 [14] => 81 [15] => B Pack [16] => 169.918 mph [17] => 2 [18] => 29 [19] => Jeff E [20] => 169.396 mph [21] => 3 [22] => 5 [23] => C Pasteryak [24] => 169.194 mph [25] => 4 [26] => 25 [27] => M Leaty [28] => 168.508 mph [29] => 5 [30] => 21 [31] => K Barry [32] => 168.366 mph [33] => 6 [34] => 6 [35] => J Leaty [36] => 168.361 mph [37] => 7 [38] => 51 [39] => Jeff F [40] => 168.298 mph [41] => 8 [42] => 99 [43] => J Tomaino [44] => 168.235 mph [45] => 9 [46] => 3 [47] => E Beers [48] => 168.193 mph [49] => 10 [50] => 60 [51] => M Hirschman [52] => 168.177 mph [53] => 11 [54] => 14 [55] => B Hutchens [56] => 168.104 mph [57] => 12 [58] => 88 [59] => J Civali [60] => 168.078 mph [61] => 13 [62] => 48 [63] => T Hirschman [64] => 168.078 mph [65] => 14 [66] => 9 [67] => E Beers [68] => 168.067 mph [69] => 15 [70] => 38 [71] => C Kuzma [72] => 167.999 mph [73] => 16 [74] => 69 [75] => J Miller [76] => 167.858 mph [77] => 17 [78] => 66 [79] => P Brittain [80] => 167.832 mph [81] => 18 [82] => 2 [83] => T Szegedy [84] => 167.827 mph [85] => 19 [86] => 10 [87] => E Flemke, Jr. [88] => 167.791 mph [89] => 20 [90] => 18 [91] => D Lia [92] => 167.749 mph [93] => 21 [94] => 8 [95] => Jeff G [96] => 167.614 mph [97] => 22 [98] => 12 [99] => J Blewett [100] => 167.593 mph [101] => 23 [102] => 83 [103] => T Brown [104] => 167.541 mph [105] => 24 [106] => 00 [107] => R Fuller [108] => 167.473 mph [109] => 25 [110] => 44 [111] => R Ruggiero [112] => 167.421 mph [113] => 26 [114] => 7 [115] => J Yeley [116] => 167.385 mph [117] => 27 [118] => 41 [119] => R Ruggiero [120] => 167.385 mph [121] => 28 [122] => 15 [123] => Z Sylvester [124] => 167.364 mph [125] => 29 [126] => 22 [127] => Jeff H [128] => 167.235 mph [129] => 30 [130] => 23 [131] => B Loftin [132] => 166.708 mph [133] => 31 [134] => 4 [135] => J Myers [136] => 166.687 mph [137] => 32 [138] => 34 [139] => M Mulhall [140] => 166.621 mph [141] => 33 [142] => 36 [143] => L Miller [144] => 166.569 mph [145] => 34 [146] => 1 [147] => B Myers [148] => 166.492 mph [149] => 35 [150] => 20 [151] => J Stoltz [152] => 166.374 mph [153] => 36 [154] => 28 [155] => J Civali [156] => 166.323 mph [157] => 37 [158] => 43 [159] => K Alexander [160] => 166.190 mph [161] => 38 [162] => 55 [163] => J Doucette [164] => 166.180 mph [165] => 39 [166] => 16 [167] => M Stefanik [168] => 166.149 mph [169] => 40 [170] => 07 [171] => F Fleming [172] => 165.812 mph [173] => 41 [174] => 17 [175] => B King [176] => 165.244 mph [177] => 42 [178] => 77 [179] => S [180] => 164.564 mph [181] => 43 [182] => 31 [183] => G Pack [184] => 164.434 mph [185] => 

[teamatomic]

Couple of questions.

You comment says that standings is a space delimited file. How do you get an array with a preg_split on line endings?

 

What does print_r($data) output?

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic

[slim_jimmy7]

I apologize, that is an old comment, it is actually an html file outputted by a program.

 

print_r($data) prints what you see above

[slim_jimmy7]

I want to thank you for leading me in the right direction I figured it out.  In the output file there is a tab placed before each one of the values.  I needed to get rid of it by putting this line underneath the other regex functions:

 

$contents = preg_replace ('/\t/is','', $contents);

 

Thank you!