Reading through file

[stonebergftw]

I have a problem that I don't know what to call.  It's simple I think.

 

I have file.txt .  In this file there are a lot of entries,some of which contain the string Goober######", where # is 1-infinite random character/s.

 

This string always ends with the character, ".  I need to go through file.txt and write each occurrence to an array.

 

Can someone help me with the syntax for this?

[stonebergftw]

I solved this mysql by using preg_match.

 

However, I'm still trying to figure out how to get it to find every occurrence, as it seems to be stopping after the first.

[jobbe]

Asuming the file looks something like this:

 

Goobergree098ge123"

Goober4gregregr56"

Goober78csgpouw59"

Goober0jl345312"

Goober34agro9szduvæl45"

Goober901gwradaegre"

Goober6jfiaoæryf89378"

 

then i would try:

 

<?PHP
$content = file('file.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);
foreach($content as $id => $line){
$tmp = explode('Goober',$line);	
$data[$id] = explode('"', $tmp[1], -1);
}
var_dump($data);
?>

 

which outputs an array

[stonebergftw]

This definitely works.  Now I'll just write code to pull only the data I need.

 

Thank you sir.

[jobbe]

This definitely works.  Now I'll just write code to pull only the data I need.

 

Thank you sir.

 

You're welcome

[stonebergftw]

Can you explain what the following line is doing?

 

$data[$id] = explode('"', $tmp[1], -1);

[aabid]

Can you explain what the following line is doing?

 

$data[$id] = explode('"', $tmp[1], -1);

 

It is removing the double quote from the right of the string so that you only left with the number you want after Goober.