I wouldnt recommend using a regular expression for this. Regular
expressions most of the time are now the answer. You could just do
something like:
foreach ($line as file('/home/virtual/....')) {
if (substr(trim($line), 0, 1) == '#') {
//$line is a comment
} else {
//$line is not a comment
}
}
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 11:50, Steve Buehler wrote:
> Ok. I am really bad at regular expressions. I have to search through some
> files and put the contents into an array. A file could look like this:
> $aliases=`cat /home/virtual/site$site_id/fst/etc/mail/local-host-names`;
> ----start of file----
> # local-host-names - include all aliases for your machine here.
> # Please do not add any domain names in this file.
> domain.net
> domain.com
> ----end of file----
>
> In $aliases, I need to ignore the lines that start with a # sign. It is
> possible, but not probably that it will be more than just the first 2 lines
> and possible that it isn't even the first two lines. After done, $aliases
> should have just the two domain names in it. One per line. Then I need to
> loop through the lines in $aliases and do stuff with each line. Any help
> would be GREATLY appreciated. It would also be fine to just do a loop that
> checks each line. Since I guess that would be quicker. If the line starts
> with a #, then ignore it, otherwise, do some other stuff.
>
> Thanks
> Steve
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