Reading the Summary of a file.

[jacl3]

I know it is possible to read the contents of a file. But what I wanted to do was be able to read the Summary Contents of a file (summary, category, keywords, comments etc) and I was wondering if this is possible.

 

Thank you for your help.

Jordan

[drewbee]

Anything is possible, its just a matter of parsing.

 

Aside from that, we have nothing to go on for helping you ie what the report looks like, what code you currently have etc.

 

 

[jacl3]

Well what I am doing is making a list of files that I have available, the files are files from Crystal Reports, they are used for stuff at school. What I need to do is make a list of all the files in the directory and then the "Comments" from the summary data so that people will be able to know what each report does. This is what I run now.

 

 

$dir = dir("../crystal/");
while (($file = $dir->read()) !== false)
{
if ($file == "."){
echo "";
}elseif ($file == ".."){
echo "";
} else {
$file3=ereg_replace("_", " ", $file);
$file3=ereg_replace("symand", "&", $file3);
echo '<a href='.$file.' target=_blank>'.$file3.'</a>';
echo '<br>';
}
}$dir->close();

 

To figure out what to parse would you need a sample .rpt file or how would this be done?