Once you get the first line into an array, you can just use explode on \n,
or use a regex that searches for any group of characters that is not a
whitespace character, then stops searching once it's found it.
As Chris said, there are many many ways of doing it.
--
Plutarck
Should be working on something...
...but forgot what it was.
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> You might want to use:-
>
> $aryQbuff = file("/pathto/filename", "r");
>
> You will then have each line of the file in an array.
>
> Then:-
> $intNumLines = count($aryQbuff);
> for($i=0;$i<=$intNumLines;$i++) {
> $intQnum = explode(".", $aryQbuff[$i]);
> // $intQnum now has the question number in it
> // Do some processing
> }
>
> This is just one way - there are plenty of others.
>
> Chris
>
> "Andrew V. Romero" wrote:
>
> > I have a php script that reads a file that looks something like this:
> >
> > 1. Question One goes here:
> > 2. Question two goes here:
> >
> > I need someway to have the script just read either the 1. or just the 1
> > When I first made the script I just had the program read the line using
> > $questionBuffer = fgets($wq, 4096); and then I got the number by using
> > a substring message: $currentQuestion = substr("$questionBuffer",0,1);
> > and this works fine until I hit questions like 10 11...
> > So how should I go about just getting the question number, ideally I
> > would like to just read up until the first space is encountered. Is
> > there a function to do that or will I need to create a for loop that
> > goes through and compares each substring of 1 character to " ", and then
> > once that " " is found, create a substring up until that " " character
> > was found? Any ideas?
> > --Andrew V. Romero
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