Thanks for all the suggestions.
On 7/24/06, Neil Smith [MVP, Digital media] <php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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>Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:31:35 -0400
>From: "Dave W" <dabbaking@xxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: making an array from data in textfile
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>OK, so I have this text file that holds a list of ip addresses like this:
>127.0.0.1,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.1
Which are strings... You with me OK so far ?
Numeric [float] values only have 1 period.
There's no numeric datatype which has 3.
>Currently, here is my code:
>
> $file = 'ip.txt';
> $fh = fopen($file, 'r');
>$theData = fread($fh, filesize($file));
>fclose($fh);
>$ips = array($theData);
>
>Since it's a numeric array,
No, it isn't. It's an array of strings which has numeric indices
(or keys depends what you call em)
>I shouldn't need quotes around the ip octets.
Yes, you should : They're strings unless you use inet_pton to convert
them to numeric values.
>When I try to echo certain parts of the array like:
>
>echo $ips[0];
>
>It's returning the whole array.
If you print_r($ips) you'll see the array structure (View -> Source
if you're looking at it in a browser).
My guess is your lines aren't terminated in \r\n, which PHP uses to
split the lines to array values.
You'll probably have to use some other method such as explode(',',
$ips) to break the individual comma separated entries into a set of
values. Other methods such as file_get_csv are generally more
efficient than reading line by line :
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php
> The text file is exactly like an array so it
>shouldn't be a problem.
It's exactly like a CSV, from the example data you provided.
PS, please don't feel the need to prove it by posting the entire log file
;-)
Cheers - Neil
--
Dave W
