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I have a text file which contains the word "Profile", I can write an algorithm to use the strpos to detect the word "Profile" found or not, if found, i need the position of the word, how to determine the position of the word ? I need the position is because from there onwards, I would like to go for character by character to check and do some convertion, Any idea, please help.
strpos - "string position"
Although this function is often used to determine simply whether or not the needle string is in the haystack:
Returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of needle in the haystack string.
Yes of course strpos() function will work for finding whether a string is in the document or not and returns the position of the string from the beginning. What you mean search character by character and do some conversion? Do you want to make replacing the found string/character. If the file is too big then it would be slower to go for character by character as i think so far.
In the text file, after the words "Profile", it contains 250 lines, which it actually is 250 records with 15 data, each data was seperate by a ",".
I need to read character by character to check for "," and chr(13) to determine that is end of each record. the word "Profile" will be found somewhere in the text file, and after that it is records. Is there any easy method for me to read each record ? each records with readings I need to do some calculation like multiply with radius and etc...
muchly appreciate for any reply....
So the file is essentially a csv file with a text lead in? I would read the file to a string, use strpos() to find the beginning of the csv portion, then maybe use str_getcsv(). Or split() if the function isn't live yet http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.split.php
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