On Thursday 17 July 2003 12:18, Beauford.2005 wrote:

> Sorry for the extra emails, but I thought I had this licked, but now
> other problem pop up. As I said, I have a file with many lines like
> <Option Value="3">Alfredsson in it. I have been able to read the file
> into an array and display it, but I am trying to do a comparison IF
> statement and no matter what I try I can't figure out what to compare.
> To explain better here is my code so far.
>
> $filename = "players.inc";
>
> $fd = fopen ($filename, "r");
> while (!feof ($fd)) {
> $buffer = fgets($fd);
> $list[] = $buffer;
> }
> fclose ($fd);

Using file() instead of the above would be much easier.

> for($i = 0; $i < 131; $i++) {
> if($list[$i] != ????????? {
> echo "<BR>".htmlspecialchars($list[$i]); }
> }
>
> So using the example above what would I use where the question marks are
> if I wanted to display everything but this line - <Option
> Value="3">Alfredsson. I have tried a variety of ways to do this:

If you're going to be using file() then:

if($list[$i] != "<Option> Value=\"3\">Alfredsson\n";

Note the \n, substitute for whatever CR/LF characters are present in your
file because file() leaves them intact.

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