[SOLVED] reading character from lines from a file

[bluebutterflyofyourmind]

hey there.  I'm using file() to create an array of the lines from a .txt file.  I guess i have two questions.

1) how to I refer to each line individually after the array is created. 

          ie.  do action A to line 5.

2)  how would I search through that line in order to fine a specific character. 

              ex.  1 Product Name: Macromedia Director MX 2004 Bible

        so I want to loop through to ':' so I can cut of that part of the line and then display the rest of the line.

 

thanks for any help.

[tibberous]

file returns an array.

 

So, to get to the 5th line, you would do:

 

$lines = file('filename');

 

echo $lines[4]; // the 5th line

 

To go through each item, use a foreach loop, to get the part after the :, use the explode function.

[bluebutterflyofyourmind]

so that was very helpful but now i'm still running into a problem.  I print the specific line of the array just fine but when i use the explode function, it just prints the word "Array".

 

$filearray = file("ProductInfo.txt");
echo $filearray[2],"<BR>";


$portion = explode(":", $filearray[2]);
echo $portion,"<BR><BR>";

 

that's the code i have so far

[pocobueno1388]

It's because your missing the bracket parts when you use $portion. I don' know how your not getting a syntax error using commas for concating.

 

<?php

$filearray = file("ProductInfo.txt");
echo $filearray[2]."<BR>";

$portion = explode(":", $filearray[2]);
echo $portion[1]."<BR><BR>";

?>

[bluebutterflyofyourmind]

wow that makes me sooo happy that works.  thanks a lot for your help.  ya i'm kinda new to php.  for some reason the comma's have been working pretty well. buut they're al changed to periods now that i know better.  thanks again!