I see. Well, that is why it was set up as comma delimited.

Try something like this:

--BEGIN THROWN TOGETHER CODE--

$found = 0;

while($line = ) {
chomp $line;
($ser_range, $grade, $size, $model, $jewels, $run, $year) = split(/\,/, $line);
($low, $high) = split(/-/, $ser_range);
if ($ser_in = $low) {
$found = 1;
last;
}
}

if($found == 1) {...}

else {...}

--END THROWN TOGETHER CODE--

That code was tossed together really quick. You need to open the file and get $ser_in from the browser yourself. I don't know for sure that code'll work, but it should get you started.

This is why I hate Perl. :)

Because its the best language ever?

*reads line noise and laughs at a joke you'll never get*

Listen to Entroper, dump the data into an SQL db and then it's 5 minutes of coding to write a PHP form that runs a query against your data.

You can even load the entire file automatically into SQL via the Load Data Local Infile cmd, so there's little work that would need to be done.

Was working on my PHP based online AFL tipping comp while I read this... so had a little LOL :)

Agree - use a SQL database. Its worth setting up, and really wouldn't take long at all.

...but hey - if efficiency isn't the goal, then don't worry about it! 

 Ew, programmer nerds!

there's more to setting up SQL then simply efficiency over file reading, how bout extreme ease of use? Sure I could write some code to parse up a file, but why bother when I can simply use a 1 line db query.