search text file

[ogo796]

Hi everyone i want to search the text file,using pregmatch() but it seems like
it dose't serch.maybe my serching pattern is not right.look at the following code.

Myfile look like this
--------------------------------
file : (49/06/01) [2007] simon 13;
file : (68/05/01) [2007] John 17 ;

i want to serch [2007] simon 13 on the text file.
can anyone help me with pregmatch patterns.
[code=php]
<?php
$jaar = $_POST[year];
$name = $_POST[name];
$empno = $_POST[employeeno];
$file =$q."Myfile.txt "; // q =path to myfile
$toSearch = "[".$jaar."]"." ".$name." ".$empno;
$lines = file($file);

$count;
$lineNumbers;

if ($lines)

{

foreach($lines as $lineNumber)

{
$lineNumbers++;

$foundAMatch = preg_match("/$toSearch/i", $lineNumber, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAP TURE);

if ($foundAMatch > 0)

{

$found = $matches[0][0];

$count=$lineNum ber;
echo $lineNumber."<b r />";


}

}

//$str_array = explode(" ",$count);

//echo $str_array[0]."<br/>";



}

else

{

$line="no file/folder found";

echo $line;

}
?>[/code]

[rohypnol]

Try this:

$toSearch = "\\[{$jaar}\\] {$name} {$empno}";