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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting extracting a set of strings from a text file Post 302136984 by Deanne on Thursday 20th of September 2007 11:31:34 PM
Old 09-21-2007
thanks jim! the code was a big help and i especially like the sorted output!

my problem is now reduced to the following:
1. how can i exclude the lines without "..................................." (the first 5 lines and last 2 lines in the file)
2. for lines with strings in the first column that are not suffixed by " ** ", how can i keep the rest of the line from being displayed? (only the string in the first column should be displayed)

does anyone have any ideas?
thank you!
 

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ctype_space - Check for whitespace character(s)

SYNOPSIS
bool ctype_space (string $text) DESCRIPTION
Checks if all of the characters in the provided string, $text, creates whitespace. PARAMETERS
o $text - The tested string. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE if every character in $text creates some sort of white space, FALSE otherwise. Besides the blank character this also includes tab, vertical tab, line feed, carriage return and form feed characters. EXAMPLES
Example #1 A ctype_space(3) example <?php $strings = array('string1' => " ", 'string2' => " arf12", 'string3' => ' '); foreach ($strings as $name => $testcase) { if (ctype_space($testcase)) { echo "The string '$name' consists of all whitespace characters. "; } else { echo "The string '$name' does not consist of all whitespace characters. "; } } ?> The above example will output: The string 'string1' consists of all whitespace characters. The string 'string2' does not consist of all whitespace characters. The string 'string3' does not consist of all whitespace characters. NOTES
Note If an integer between -128 and 255 inclusive is provided, it is interpreted as the ASCII value of a single character (negative val- ues have 256 added in order to allow characters in the Extended ASCII range). Any other integer is interpreted as a string contain- ing the decimal digits of the integer. SEE ALSO
ctype_cntrl(3), ctype_graph(3), ctype_punct(3). PHP Documentation Group CTYPE_SPACE(3)
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