search for a string in file

[amedjones]

hi im tryin to search for a string in a file but i cant seem to pull up the result,

heres my code

$countries = file("countries.txt");
$matches = array();
function getResult($q)
{

    global $countries, $matches, $q;
    foreach ($countries as $c)
    {
        
        if ($q == $c)
        echo "match found";
             
    }
    
    //print result
    foreach ($matches as $match)
    {
        echo "$match <br />";
    }
    

 

countries has a list of all countries in each line and $q is a text form, i tried replacing it with a country like "Canada" but still i get no match

 

thanks

[Barand]

try

 

if ($q == trim($c))

 

to remove newline chars from end of line