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PHP, read values from txt file, and add

It's me again, with for some people here probably an easy thing to code.

I have this txt file, with in it "tags" with a number value that I need to add up all together.

The parts in the txt file that I need look like this:

Quote:

text text text
<segment bytes="100" number="1">some random text</segment>
text random text random text
some more random text
<segment bytes="3397" number="1">some random text</segment>
some other random text
<segment bytes="3521" number="1">some random text</segment>
<segment bytes="261" number="2">some random text</segment>
<segment bytes="9621" number="3">some random text</segment>
some more random text
some more random text
<segment bytes="7" number="1">some text</segment>
even more text

So. The code needs to read the value after <segment bytes=", and add it all together. (it's always on a new line)
The times that <segment bytes=" is in the file could be one time or many times!

Now. How could I do this the best way?
Any help appreciated!

I'm not too sure about the reading bytes part sorry but below is php that will read a file line by line:

<?php
$handle = @fopen("/tmp/inputfile.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
while (!feof($handle)) {
$buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
echo $buffer;
}
fclose($handle);
}
?>

http://uk.php.net/fgets

Might be something like this

Hello, something I wrote very quickly. Could have bugs, havn't tested yet.

PHP Code:


		
			
#!usr/local/bin/php



<?php

$total = 0;



$fin = @fopen("path to file", "r");

if ($fin) {



    while (!feof($fin)) {

        $buffer = fgets($fin);

        if (preg_match('/<segment bytes="(\d+)"/',$buffer,$matched))

            $total += $matched['1'];

        else

            continue;

        }

    fclose($fin);

    print $total;



}

?>

Quote:

Originally Posted by blu3ness

Hello, something I wrote very quickly. Could have bugs, havn't tested yet.

PHP Code:


		
			
#!usr/local/bin/php



<?php

$total = 0;



$fin = @fopen("path to file", "r");

if ($fin) {



    while (!feof($fin)) {

        $buffer = fgets($fin);

        if (preg_match('/<segment bytes="(\d+)"/',$buffer,$matched))

            $total += $matched['1'];

        else

            continue;

        }

    fclose($fin);

    print $total;



}

?>

Hi blu3ness,

This looks good! I'll give it a try later today.

Thank you