parsing strings

[hellonoko]

I need to go through a list of words and find ones with certain letters in the last two places.

I know how to code this but am not sure of what str functions I would use.

I am looking around a little in the PHP manual can anyone point me in the right direction?


Also my host does not support the php5 fuction stream_get_contents()

What would be an alternative function for getting the contects of a HTML page and processing them in my php page.

Thanks in advance.

[ober]

How is your list of words setup? Is it an array? Is it all in a string? I'd use the substr() function to look at the words and determine if it matches your pattern.

I would use fopen() for that, but I'm going to guess that you're not allowed to use that function either... but maybe.

[hellonoko]

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How is your list of words setup? Is it an array? Is it all in a string? I'd use the substr() function to look at the words and determine if it matches your pattern.

I would use fopen() for that, but I'm going to guess that you're not allowed to use that function either... but maybe.
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the list of word will be put into an array.

does fopen() work for remote files and urls as well as files on the server?

[ober]

[code]<?php
for($i = 0; $i < count($myarray); $i++)
{
     if(substr($myarray[i], -2) == 'ab')
          // do something
} [/code]

And yes, fopen() opens both remote and local files.

[hellonoko]

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[code]<?php
for($i = 0; $i < count($myarray); $i++)
{
     if(substr($myarray[i], -2) == 'ab')
          // do something
} [/code]

And yes, fopen() opens both remote and local files.
[/quote]


when i use fopen() to open a URL i get only:

Resource id #4

I asume it is opening the page but not putting the acctually contents into my varriable.

[ober]

Exactly. That's because fopen() returns a file handle number. You need to use fread() to actually read the contents of the file.

You could also use fgets() in a loop.

[hellonoko]

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Exactly. That's because fopen() returns a file handle number. You need to use fread() to actually read the contents of the file.

You could also use fgets() in a loop.
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i had to use file_get_contents()

but i got it working.

thanks!

[ober]

Yeah... that'll work too... I forgot about that function.