Hi, PHP Experts I have text file which has lots of text as well as HTML data. There are some line as shown below. Code: 06/30/12 00:40:30.73 Sending Email - Group: 4FD7917824F1B-EMAIL, 0, Message: There are lots of lines like above in text file. I want to extract following data from the entire text file. Code: Group: 4FD7917824F1B-EMAIL I know this can be done by regular expression but I don't know how exactly done it. Some one can please provide some regular expression for above or some explanation.
I believe this was the way to do it in PHP. Code: $myfile = file_get_contents('location of txt file'); $pattern = '%([^,]Group.*)%'; if (preg_match_all($pattern, $myfile, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER)) { foreach ($matches as $match) { echo $match; } } That should do the trick. Let me know what comes out of it.
Your script give output as "Array Array Array". I have done little modification in it and it works. Code: $myfile = file_get_contents('EmailLog.txt'); $pattern = "%[^,](Group.*)-EMAIL%"; if (preg_match_all($pattern, $myfile, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER)) { foreach ($matches as $match) { echo $match[0]."<br>"; } } Output: [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman]Group: 4FD7917824F1B-EMAIL[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman]Group: 4FD7917824F1B-EMAIL[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman]Group: 4FD7917824F1B-EMAIL[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman]Group: 4FE49D61C1446-EMAIL[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman]Group: 4FE49F94DE946-EMAIL[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman]Group: 4FD3E154C80E3-EMAIL[/FONT][/COLOR]