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| Posted by CowHosts, 05-06-2011, 02:24 PM |
| Hey,
I'm not sure what section this should go in but here it goes anyway.
I need to basically grab some data from an external .txt file. I only need the bottom line of the file. I know a code which will echo the top value of the file, anyone know how to change this to the bottom value?
Here's the code:
Thanks.
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| Posted by WootWoot, 05-06-2011, 03:29 PM |
| Hi there,
Here's one (efficient) way to achieve what you want :
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| Posted by CowHosts, 05-06-2011, 05:08 PM |
| Hey WootWoot,
I really appreciate your reply. I have tried out this code, looks like it should work and I got some kind of PHP error. It doesn't make much sense to me can you make anything out of it?
Warning: fseek() [function.fseek]: stream does not support seeking in /home/directory/index.php on line 7
Warning: fseek() [function.fseek]: stream does not support seeking in /home/directory/index.php on line 17
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| Posted by WootWoot, 05-06-2011, 05:28 PM |
| Hum... This piece of code shall work fine.
Have you replaced "file.txt" with your own file name? Is it a .txt file? Are you sure this file exists and is properly CHMODed?
If the file isn't that big, you may simply use :
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| Posted by adamhahnderson, 05-08-2011, 04:57 AM |
| In the case of large files, I typically use this method:
The $output array, in this case, would contain the last line of myfile.txt. I find this method convenient for looking at apache log files, or any files that have lots of line breaks.
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| Posted by CowHosts, 05-08-2011, 06:11 AM |
| Hello,
Thanks both of those worked. I appreciate your time in helping me out with this.
CowHosts
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| Posted by saimaspider, 05-08-2011, 09:19 PM |
| Thanks for the reply good solution
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