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Marwan Khaled
Marwan Khaled

Reputation: 323

Avoid Line Repeat in PHP

I am working on a PHP code that reads data from text files and it searches for a certain word and echos it, for example, I search for

[Error]

Is it possible to only echo the word I search for only 1 time (aka if the word "Error" is found twice, only echo it once!)

    $file = 'filesexample/'.$fileNameNew;
    $searchfor = 'error';

    header('Content-Type: text/plain');

    $contents = file_get_contents($file);
    $pattern = preg_quote($searchfor, '/');
    $pattern = "/^.*$pattern.*\$/m";
    if(preg_match_all($pattern, $contents, $matches)){
       echo "Errors Found:\n";
       echo implode("\n", $matches[0]);
    }

Can I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 140

Answers (1)

user2342558
user2342558

Reputation: 6703

You can use the array_unique() PHP's function which remove duplicate values from an array:

if(preg_match_all($pattern, $contents, $matches))
{
    $matches[0] = array_unique($matches[0]);

    echo "Errors Found:\n";
    echo implode("\n", $matches[0]);
}

Upvotes: 2

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