PHP: reading files

without echoing the variable to the screen I don't think there is a hard and fast way to do it. maybe Dennis would know, but I don't think you can.

Here I come to the recue!
file() reads a file into an array, each element is one line of the file.

Code:

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<?php
        $filearr = file("filename.txt");
        $arrlen = count($filearr);
        $matchvar = "hello";

        for($i = 0; $i < $arrlen; $i++)
        {
                if($filearr[$i] == $matchvar)
                {
                        $found = $filearr[$i];
                        $foundnum = $i;
                        break;
                }
        }
?>

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SuperDennis the PHP warrior :p