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<blockquote data-quote="NSA" data-source="post: 200442" data-attributes="member: 10034">Hello,&nbsp;I'm trying to make a PHP installation file for one of my applications.I have a text file like so:&nbsp;inc21 : 12inc22 : 29inc87 : 21&nbsp;I want PHP to search for the : and edit the &quot;12&quot; to a set string.So if I have a string of text say &quot;Hello&quot;, I want &quot;12&quot; to be replaced by &quot;Hello&quot;.&nbsp;How does one accomplish this.&nbsp;I tried using this (see below) but it was returning the full line instead of just &quot;12&quot;.&nbsp;[PHP]&lt;?php$file = 'somefile.txt';$searchfor = ': ';&nbsp;// the following line prevents the browser from parsing this as HTML.header('Content-Type: text/plain');&nbsp;// get the file contents, assuming the file to be readable (and exist)$contents = file_get_contents($file);// escape special characters in the query$pattern = preg_quote($searchfor, '/');// finalise the regular expression, matching the whole line$pattern = &quot;/^.*$pattern.*\$/m&quot;;// search, and store all matching occurences in $matchesif(preg_match_all($pattern, $contents, $matches)){&nbsp; echo &quot;Found matches:\n&quot;;&nbsp; echo implode(&quot;\n&quot;, $matches[0]);}else{&nbsp; echo &quot;No matches found&quot;;}?&gt;[/PHP]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NSA, post: 200442, member: 10034"] Hello, I'm trying to make a PHP installation file for one of my applications. I have a text file like so: inc21 : 12 inc22 : 29 inc87 : 21 I want PHP to search for the : and edit the "12" to a set string. So if I have a string of text say "Hello", I want "12" to be replaced by "Hello". How does one accomplish this. I tried using this (see below) but it was returning the full line instead of just "12". [PHP]<?php $file = 'somefile.txt'; $searchfor = ': '; // the following line prevents the browser from parsing this as HTML. header('Content-Type: text/plain'); // get the file contents, assuming the file to be readable (and exist) $contents = file_get_contents($file); // escape special characters in the query $pattern = preg_quote($searchfor, '/'); // finalise the regular expression, matching the whole line $pattern = "/^.*$pattern.*\$/m"; // search, and store all matching occurences in $matches if(preg_match_all($pattern, $contents, $matches)){ echo "Found matches:\n"; echo implode("\n", $matches[0]); } else{ echo "No matches found"; } ?>[/PHP] [/QUOTE]

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