Hey Chris / Richard, > I was wondering if the different line endings > (dos/unix) might play a > factor but I doubt it. Chris: Ok, that really helped, I was testing the test.txt file on my Win2k machine and was testing the whole script on a FreeBSD machine... so I took the small test and upped it on the FreeBSD machine, ran it and this is what I got: ----------- output ---------- In while(),Start..193.150.249.47|-|200|18897|/usr/local/www/nocme.com/www/coinpass/coinpass|----End of stdin Fatal error: Call to undefined function: preg_match() in /usr/local/www/nocme.com/www/coinpass/test/test_regex.php on line 12 ----------- output ---------- As you can see it is reading the first line without a problem, as it touches preg_match it screws up, searching google I see that the problem might be that PCRE has not been installed on this machine (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/67726) , will contact the host. Thanks for your help again, I hope this helps someone else later on. Richard: <clip> You *DO* see this bit in the log right?... And is $line what you expect it to be, newlines and all?... </clip> Its exactly as it should be... <clip> $pattern="/^(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\|(.+)\|(\d+)\|([\d-]+)\|(.+)\|(.+)$/"; It's NOT your problem, but... \ has an awful lot of different meanings inside of " marks in PHP. I'd recommend using \\ to get a single \ embedded in a string. </clip> I didnt write that, am still learning the basics of REGEX and fooling around with the "regex coach", according to that it does match the pattern I am looking for, want to tune it a bit but for now will let it be till I can understand regex better. Thanks for the advise on future regex writing though, I am sure it will come in handy when I understand regexs a bit better. The thing is, I thought this was bundled with the standard package of PHP, if yes, why would anybody want to turn this off? Thanks! Ryan ------ - The faulty interface lies between the chair and the keyboard. - Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster! - Smile, everyone loves a moron. :-) ----- Fight back spam! Download the Blue Frog. http://www.bluesecurity.com/register/s?user=bXVzaWNndTc%3D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
