parse error, unexpected T_STRING

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parse error, unexpected T_STRING

What on earth is wrong

neiljones

11:19 pm on Oct 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm fairly new to PHP. I have been puzzling for hours over this;_

I'm getting
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting '(' in /usr/www/users/wildsite/ecodating/datread3.php on line 13

Here is the program Any ideas why it does not work?

<html>
<head>
<title> results </title>
<body>
<?php
$filename ="findata.txt";
$myFile = fopen($filename, "r");
$fcontents = file($filename);
while (list ($line_num, $line) = each ($fcontents))
{
echo $line."<br>\n";
$pattern ="/END0Ł/";
if preg_match ("/END0Ł/",$line)
{
echo "DO work":
}

}
fclose($myFile);
?>
</body>
</html>

MonkeeSage

11:36 pm on Oct 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

If that's your whole file then the problem is on the if preg_match line (which is what I was thinking anyhow) -- try single quoting the pattern or escaping the pound sign, it is probably having trouble parsing it, so it thinks there isn't a closing quote and thus thinks there isn't a closing parenthesis...that would be my best guess.

Jordan

keeper

12:05 am on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

You also have a colon instead of a semi-colon at the end of your echo "Do Work" statement.

Chroder

12:40 am on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

Try

if(preg_match("/END0Ł/",$line))

in place of your current if. (along with fixint what keeper said) :)

MonkeeSage

2:49 am on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

Good call Chroder. :)

Jordan

neiljones

7:18 pm on Oct 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

Duh! Of course. Thanks everybody. It is obvious when you see it. It have been programing in too many different languages recently.