Development Finding a string in a text file

Hi guys.

I'm writing a PHP script to search through refferral logs from IIS/Apache and pull out all the google URLS and strip out the q=<text> part.

Then I need it to output this to the user.

How would I go about doing this? Currently I've got it to open the file and pop the contents into a variable, I can print this out fine.

Cheers

 

Use regexps, something like preg_grep() should sort ya.

 

awk would be faster - man awk.

Consider storing the results in a DB if they're big log files and/or the page will get lots of hits.

 

Probably, however as he is using IIS I imagine he is using Windows so won't have awk.

 

I saw Apache and assumed access to Linux. No one runs Apache/PHP on Windows do they?

 

I do for dev work

 

cygwin + awk

 

Its ok, we found a program do do it for us now!

Thanks for the help though