Try it this way.
<?
$search_str = "something";
$file = "blah";
$found = 0;
$fp = fopen($file, "r");
while(!feof($fp) && !$found) {
$contents = fgets($fp, 4096);
if ( strstr($contents, $search_str) ) {
$found = 1;
}
}
fclose($fp);
if ( $found ) {
echo "<pre>";
readfile($file);
echo "</pre>";
}
?>
Christopher S. Cosby
SciCare Software Services
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Loepp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 7:43 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] Searching for string in text file help?
>
>
> Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me as I' new to this and
> can't figure it
> out myself.
>
> PHP4.20 Win32
>
> I'm trying to seach for a string that would occur about 10
> lines into a text
> file. I don't want to search the entire file, and I just want
> to know if the
> string exsists or not, but I don't really know what I'm
> doing. This is what
> I was trying, it occurs inside a loop that is listing the files in a
> directory.
>
> $fp = fopen("$target_filename", "r");
> $contents = fgets("$fp","4096");
> if(strstr("$contents", "$search_str"))
> {
> echo "<pre>";
> readfile("$target_filename");
> echo "</pre>";
> }
>
> Thanks
> Tim Loepp
>
>
>
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