HELP PLS! Newbie: fopen() error?

[Pipes]

Hello: I'm a complete novice trying to split a file of quotations into quotes and authors (it's a .txt file). I've written this short simple script but i'm getting an error message.

[code]$quotestxt = '$DOCUMENT_ROOT/quotes.txt';
$quotes_file = fopen($quotestxt, 'r+');
while (fread($quotes_file, 1024)) {
$pattern = '^[\"]';
$quote_roster = preg_match($pattern, $quotes_file);
print_r($quote_roster);
}
[/code]
Th error message is telling me: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in C:\XXXX\separate_quotes_from_authors.php on line 15

can anyone tell me what I should looking for? i've tried the manual, but I can't seem to help myself. It's driving me mad!

any help appreciated!
Pipes

[kenrbnsn]

Which is line 15?

Also, you want to use double quotes instead of single quotes on this line:
[code]<?php $quotestxt = '$DOCUMENT_ROOT/quotes.txt'; ?>[/code]

Ken

[Pipes]

Thanks Ken: sorry should have mentioned line 15 is the one that begins
$quotestxt = '$DOCUMENT_ROOT/quotes.txt';

I have now changed this to double quotes, but the problem persists.

The location and path is correct (I created a short variable name for the server path above this code.) so I don't know what variable problems to be looking for??

Thanks for trying to help.

best, Andy

[redarrow]

Use the full url of the document_root

example

$quotestxt = "folder_name/quotes.txt";

[code]
<?php
$quotestxt = "$DOCUMENT_ROOT/quotes.txt";
$quotes_file = fopen($quotestxt, 'r+');
while (fread($quotes_file, 1024)) {
$pattern = '^[\"]';
$quote_roster = preg_match($pattern, $quotes_file);
print_r($quote_roster);
}
?>
[/code]