Reading text after a certain character in php

Question

Okay so I have a text file and inside of the text file I have these lines:

IP = 127.0.0.1
EXE = Client.exe
PORT = 8080
TITLE = Title
MAINT = False
MAINT-Message = This is the message.

what I am wanted to do is get the 'False' part on the fifth line.

I have the basic concept but I can't seem to make it work. This is what I have tried:

<?php
$file = file_get_contents('LauncherInfo.txt');
$info = explode(' = ', $file);

echo $info[5];
?>

And with this I get a result but when I echo $info[5] it gives me 'False Maint-Message' so it splits it but it only splits at the = sign. I want to be able to make it split at the where I have pressed enter to go onto the next line. Is this possible and how can I do it?

I was thinking it would work if I make it explode on line one and then do the same for the second line with a loop until it came to the end of the file? I don't know how to do this though.

Thanks.

If you use file() instead of file_get_contents() you'll have an array that you can iterate over, or reference by line number (-1) as the array key — Mark Baker, Jun 26 '13 at 21:17
Don't use `explode` at all. Consider a regex, or parse_ini_file. — mario, Jun 26 '13 at 21:17
if you use parese_ini_file, be aware that `False` will return an empty string — user20232359723568423357842364, Jun 26 '13 at 21:22
Just use my answer [from here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/17297209) and change the pattern to `#(.*?)\s*=\s*(.*)#m` — HamZa, Jun 26 '13 at 21:27
Thanks guys. There are different methods of doing it. I see now. — avgcoder, Jun 26 '13 at 21:49

AlliterativeAlice · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-26T21:27:09.900

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I think you're looking for the file(), which splits a file's contents into an array of the file's lines.

Try this:

$file = file('LauncherInfo.txt');
foreach ($file as $line) {
    if ($line) {
        $splitLine = explode(' = ',$line);
        $data[$splitLine[0]] = $splitLine[1];
    }
}
echo $data['MAINT'];

edited Jun 26 '13 at 21:27

answered Jun 26 '13 at 21:20

AlliterativeAlice

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Oh that works. Thank you very much. Was looking into it for hours. – avgcoder Jun 26 '13 at 21:48

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 26 '13 at 22:06

Just in case you were curious, since I wasn't aware of the file() function. You could do it manually like this

<?php
$file = file_get_contents('LauncherInfo.txt');
$lines = explode("\n", $file);
$info=array();
foreach($lines as $line){
  $split=explode(' = ',$line);
  $info[]=$splitline[1];
}
echo $info[5];//prints False
?>

Reading text after a certain character in php

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