* and then Ed Lazor declared.... > It looks like you're hading in the right direction. You've grabbed an array > of each file. Then cycle through that array and read data from each file. > The fread function will allow you to pull data from each file line by line, > so you can store each line in an array. Using your idea of pseudo-code: > > $data = array(); > $i = 1; > foreach ( file ) { > $n = 1; > fp = fopen > while ($line = fread() ){ > $data[$i][$n] = $line; > } > } > > foreach ($data as $key => $line ) { > foreach ($line as $line_number => $ip) { > // do stuff > } > } hehe, not sure i get it but im playing with it ;-) i need to see code in action for my head to understand it. I did have one rather good though though (i think): If i can create an array with all of the ips in order like this 123.123.123.1 // 1st IP from machine 1 123.123.123.2 // 1st IP from machine 2 123.123.123.3 // 1st IP from machine 3 123.123.123.4 // 2nd IP from machine 1 123.123.123.5 // 2nd IP from machine 2 123.123.123.4 // 2nd IP from machine 3 etc... then i would have *exactly* what the application needs. Does that make the problem any easier? > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Nick W -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php