Hi,
I tried searching myself using google and on php.net, but too much
irrelevant answers and not a single one helpful so please bare with me.
Could someone please show me how to get one line from a file, much like unix
"grep '^needle' haystack" ?
I'm sure there are zero or one matches, and I don't need fancy regular
expressions, just a string to be found at the beginning of a line. That
string won't be the entire line though.
TIA 9 5419
mijn naam wrote:
Hi,
I tried searching myself using google and on php.net, but too much
irrelevant answers and not a single one helpful so please bare with me.
Could someone please show me how to get one line from a file, much like
unix "grep '^needle' haystack" ?
I'm sure there are zero or one matches, and I don't need fancy regular
expressions, just a string to be found at the beginning of a line. That
string won't be the entire line though.
TIA
You'll have to do it like grep does - read the file in and compare. The
easiest would be to read in a line at a time with fgets().
Alternatively, you could read in a block at a time and parse the block
into lines. More work for you but it could be faster.
Of course, a database would make things much easier :-)
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:01:10 +0200, "mijn naam"
<wh******@hotma il.invalidwrote :
>Hi,
I tried searching myself using google and on php.net, but too much irrelevant answers and not a single one helpful so please bare with me.
Could someone please show me how to get one line from a file, much like unix "grep '^needle' haystack" ?
I'm sure there are zero or one matches, and I don't need fancy regular expressions, just a string to be found at the beginning of a line. That string won't be the entire line though.
$line = `grep '^needle' haystack`;
Regrettably, we are not all on *nix. ;-)
Regards,
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"mijn naam" <wh******@hotma il.invalidschre ef in bericht
news:6d******** *************** ****@cache100.m ultikabel.net.. .
Hi,
I tried searching myself using google and on php.net, but too much
irrelevant answers and not a single one helpful so please bare with me.
Could someone please show me how to get one line from a file, much like
unix "grep '^needle' haystack" ?
I'm sure there are zero or one matches, and I don't need fancy regular
expressions, just a string to be found at the beginning of a line. That
string won't be the entire line though.
Thanks all. As expected there are many solutions. I got one from elsewhere
as well.
Part of the problem (which I did not mention) is that I needed only the rest
of the line.
So, for "xyz:abc" I'm only interested in "abc". The following function does
this. What do you think of it?
The file is:
aaa:xyz
xyz:abc
bbb:pqr
[...]
function match($what,$wh ere) {
$x=file_get_con tents($where);
$a=explode("\n" ,$x);
$b=preg_grep("/^{$what}:/",$a);
if (count($b)!=1) return FALSE;
$b=implode("",$ b);
$b=explode(":", $b);
if (count($b)!=2) return FALSE;
$b=$b{1};
return $b;
}
mijn naam wrote:
"mijn naam" <wh******@hotma il.invalidschre ef in bericht
news:6d******** *************** ****@cache100.m ultikabel.net.. .
>Hi,
I tried searching myself using google and on php.net, but too much irrelevant answers and not a single one helpful so please bare with me.
Could someone please show me how to get one line from a file, much like unix "grep '^needle' haystack" ?
I'm sure there are zero or one matches, and I don't need fancy regular expressions, just a string to be found at the beginning of a line. That string won't be the entire line though.
Thanks all. As expected there are many solutions. I got one from
elsewhere as well.
Part of the problem (which I did not mention) is that I needed only the
rest of the line.
So, for "xyz:abc" I'm only interested in "abc". The following function
does this. What do you think of it?
The file is:
aaa:xyz
xyz:abc
bbb:pqr
[...]
function match($what,$wh ere) {
$x=file_get_con tents($where);
$a=explode("\n" ,$x);
$b=preg_grep("/^{$what}:/",$a);
if (count($b)!=1) return FALSE;
$b=implode("",$ b);
$b=explode(":", $b);
if (count($b)!=2) return FALSE;
$b=$b{1};
return $b;
}
I think this is MUCH better suited to a database with a call like
$sql = "select the_column from table_foo where the_key like 'what'";
and where the_key is your aaa, bbb, etc. and the_column contains what
you have now on the rest of the line after the ";".
You can easily export your current files into a database table.
<sheldonlgschre ef in bericht
news:me******** *************** *******@giganew s.com...
I think this is MUCH better suited to a database with a call like
$sql = "select the_column from table_foo where the_key like 'what'";
and where the_key is your aaa, bbb, etc. and the_column contains what you
have now on the rest of the line after the ";".
You can easily export your current files into a database table.
If that php script would be the only user of the file, you would probably
have a good point. Unfortunately that's not the case.
Thanks anyway!
On Aug 27, 2:43 pm, "mijn naam" <whate...@hotma il.invalidwrote :
<sheldonlgschre ef in berichtnews:me* *************** **************@ giganews.com...
I think this is MUCH better suited to a database with a call like
$sql = "select the_column from table_foo where the_key like 'what'";
and where the_key is your aaa, bbb, etc. and the_column contains what you
have now on the rest of the line after the ";".
You can easily export your current files into a database table.
If that php script would be the only user of the file, you would probably
have a good point. Unfortunately that's not the case.
Thanks anyway!
Or you could use something like this.
function find_thing($wha t,$where)
{
$temp=file_get_ contents($where );
if (!$start=strpos ($temp,$what))
return false;
else
$start+=strlen( $what)+1; //Add +1 because of the :
$end=strpos($te mp,"\n",$start) ;
return substr($temp,$s tart,$end);
}
"George Maicovschi" <ge************ **@gmail.comsch reef in bericht
news:2a******** *************** ***********@d45 g2000hsc.google groups.com...
Or you could use something like this.
function find_thing($wha t,$where)
{
$temp=file_get_ contents($where );
if (!$start=strpos ($temp,$what))
return false;
else
$start+=strlen( $what)+1; //Add +1 because of the :
$end=strpos($te mp,"\n",$start) ;
return substr($temp,$s tart,$end);
}
Looks good, thanks. It will need to be adjusted slightly, else "abc" would
also match "abcd:pqrs" and return ":pqrs". It seems that appending ":" to
"$what" is enough.
Do you agree that using "file_get_conte nts" is more efficient than "while
not found and not eof do fgets ..." ?
mijn naam wrote:
"mijn naam" <wh******@hotma il.invalidschre ef in bericht
news:6d******** *************** ****@cache100.m ultikabel.net.. .
>Hi,
I tried searching myself using google and on php.net, but too much irrelevant answers and not a single one helpful so please bare with me.
Could someone please show me how to get one line from a file, much like unix "grep '^needle' haystack" ?
I'm sure there are zero or one matches, and I don't need fancy regular expressions, just a string to be found at the beginning of a line. That string won't be the entire line though.
Thanks all. As expected there are many solutions. I got one from
elsewhere as well.
Part of the problem (which I did not mention) is that I needed only the
rest of the line.
So, for "xyz:abc" I'm only interested in "abc". The following function
does this. What do you think of it?
The file is:
aaa:xyz
xyz:abc
bbb:pqr
[...]
function match($what,$wh ere) {
$x=file_get_con tents($where);
$a=explode("\n" ,$x);
$b=preg_grep("/^{$what}:/",$a);
if (count($b)!=1) return FALSE;
$b=implode("",$ b);
$b=explode(":", $b);
if (count($b)!=2) return FALSE;
$b=$b{1};
return $b;
}
If you want to grab the file in an array of lines, use the file()
function. This method is a bit clearer:
function match($needle, $file) {
$ret = false;
$lines = file($file);
foreach ( $lines as $line ) {
list($key,$val) = explode(':',$li ne);
$ret = $key==$needle ? $val : false;
if ( $ret ) break;
}
return $ret;
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