using file() and array_search()

[tbertz]

ok new to php and having some problems converting my head into the different way it handles things which is why:

$filename = "page.txt";
$lines=file('http://www.example.com');
$theline=$lines[0];
print $theline

doesnt work....

the way i understand it file() returns an array consisting of the lines within the file specified. I also thought that you could then refer to the line in question using [array.pos]?. Help I have managed to print the values contained withing the array, write the thing into the page and to a file.

However even with efforts using array_search I havent been able to pick out particualr phrases or strings.

Tom

[Yellow-Box]

Try:

$array=file('example.txt');
echo $array[0];

works fine.

Jan.

[tbertz]

that works fine with local files or maybe it the face that its a text file?? but it doesnt work with a url