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Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 12:30:16 +0200
From: Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan>
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Subject: Re: grep in php?
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On 20-10-2012 12:04, houghi wrote:
> I am looking how to do a grep in php. I have a variable(1) with very much
> random data.
>
> I want only to get lines that have certain words in it. As far as I can
> see preg_grep does not work, as the data isn't an array.
>

read the file contents into an array:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php

> I could use (exec grep ...), but I rather not.
>
> I am looking for something that does:
> $result = grep("word_I_look_for",$result);
>
> (1)If it is easier, I can use a file instead of a variable.
>
> houghi
>