extracting comments from text file

[hottac]

Hi all, I know this probably an elementary question to some of you, but I'm just learning php myself.

I was wondering if someone could help me with a script to extract a comment line from a text file. I have alot of txt files handed to me at work and all of them have comments that I need to extract and combine into one txt file. Lets say that one txt file has bunch of sentence in it but usually at the end, it'd have a "Comment: brad does a great job of helping me" Is there a way where I could just drop all of the text files into a folder and let php extract all the comments and combined into one file? Thank you and any help would be very appreciated

[jthayne]

Are the text files always formatted the same way? For example, are the comments always last and do they always begin with "Comment:"?

[hottac]

yes, the text files are always formatted the same. For example:

something line
something line
Comment:brad does a great job of helping me and it can go on and wrap itself
something line

Thanks

[jthayne]

Use the following code, and modify it to do what you need. I have already modified it some for you.

PHP Code:

<?php
$handle = @fopen("/tmp/inputfile.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
    while (!feof($handle)) {
        $buffer = fgets($handle);
        if (strtolower(substr($buffer, 0, 8)) == "comments") {
            echo $buffer;
        }
    }
    fclose($handle);
}
?>

You can also check php.net for more information on the above functions

[hottac]

oh nice jthayne, I will give it a try during my time off this holiday. Lets say if I need it to modify where the script looks inside a folder and open all the text files in the folder and extract any comments, will that be hard to integrate into this script you made? Thank you so much for your time and if I don't hear from you, have a nice thanksgiving.