thats great John... thanks a lot ....
u almost got my question...
but a few ellaborations of my posting,

1. the file should not be inside the program, its read with the given location as in my program.

2. the file doesnt contain the line number.

3. we dont know the exact number of arguments which will be passed. (in ur program 1..6)

4. Phrase 1, Phrase 2... was jus an example, it could be anything. for eg:

total Laptops produced: 60
total mice produced: 40
total cpu sold : 57
total printers produced: 98
total monitors produced: 10

.......................

phrases like these could be present any number of times in the file. but our function should search in the order the phrases are passed.

actually the phrase passed will be like, for eg "total cpu sold :" but it shud return the whole line, cuz the value 57 is important.

to give u clear idea...
the file " test.txt" contains:

total Laptops produced: 60
total cpu sold : 57
total mice produced: 40
total cpu sold : 45
total Laptops produced: 68
total mice produced: 48
total cpu sold : 51
total printers produced: 19
total monitors produced: 149

-------

for eg: this is given


$a= "total Laptops produced:";
$b ="total mice produced:";
$c = "total cpu produced:";

&search_phrase($filename, $a, $b, $c);

this function shud return 45.

i thank u again for ur support...

In reply to Re^2: search pattern and arrays by Anonymous Monk
in thread search pattern and arrays by mercuryshipz

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