> everything will be running on my desktop, available to the internal LAN > only, therefore the server-side nature of things won't be a problem.
IMHO you are using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. If you are running everything on your desktop, why not just write a quick Perl script that will do what you want? You could even use VB (runs off quickly to wash his hands) to do this sort of thing for you, much more simply and with a more windows-like interface. (Although Perl would be best for the pattern matching you mentioned, if a little unwieldy to start.) By using PHP you are introducing a whole new set of problems and complexities that you will need to master. > > At the risk of sounding trite, have you tried the manual? > > problem with that is i've got no idea where to start looking in > the manual. > i've managed to find specific functions that will accomplish a few key > things. apart from that tho, i'm flying completely blind. not > looking for a > handout or anything, its more a case of wanting to know if > someone else has > had something similar come up and found a particular section of the > documentation / function to be useful ... :D Is this your first attempt at programming? I don't mean to be rude, but questions like "scan until you find this particular pattern of characters, then take everything before that and move it into *this* variable" appear to show that you do not understand how to make a for loop and put an if condition in it. If this is that case, then I recommend doing a search for a tutorial and going through that before you even begin your project - practice on something smaller that you will be able to complete. http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP should have a few articles to get you started. If however, you do know how to program, then I really don't see why you can't find the relevant sections in the manual... regards, Mikey "If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day. If you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime." -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
