ted_chou12 Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 I want to build a search searching for match strings in the content of txt files for a specific directory, can anyone help me with this? or perhaps start me off. thanks Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31700-how-to-search-for-match-string-in-a-txt-file-thanks/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orio Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 What are you exactly looking for? Can you give an example?Basically, If you want to make searches in text files, open it and fetch the data out of it, then use regular expressions to replace or match things.Orio. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31700-how-to-search-for-match-string-in-a-txt-file-thanks/#findComment-146926 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Get the contents of the text files, file_get_contents().Do you want to do a regular expression, or just find if the string exists in the document? If you just want to check for an exact match, strpos()Your signature is funny. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31700-how-to-search-for-match-string-in-a-txt-file-thanks/#findComment-146928 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted_chou12 Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share Posted December 23, 2006 what if there are a lot of text files? how do you do a search for that? By that I mean the number of the text files are not fix, so they can increase or decrease with time.Thanks. :P Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31700-how-to-search-for-match-string-in-a-txt-file-thanks/#findComment-146931 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 You get all the files from the folder. http://us2.php.net/function.opendirRead example 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31700-how-to-search-for-match-string-in-a-txt-file-thanks/#findComment-146934 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted_chou12 Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share Posted December 23, 2006 thanks Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31700-how-to-search-for-match-string-in-a-txt-file-thanks/#findComment-146956 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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