[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by Raven_Writer

Hm...maybe seperate each item by underscores or something, and scan the file for it, and each time it's found, fill an array w/ the info and also use a counter. An example:

Thanks, I'll try that, really the while(($num_news < 5) && ($stuff != eof())) is what I was looking for, just not really sure where to put it in the code.

EDIT: I've got it, rudimentary as it is:

PHP Code:

<?
$counter = 0;
$data = file('news.txt');
$data = array_reverse($data);
foreach($data as $element)
{
if($counter < 5)
  {
      $element = trim($element);
      $pieces = explode("|", $element);
      echo $pieces[0] . $pieces[1] . $pieces[2] . $pieces[3];
      echo "<hr>\n";
  }
else
  {
  }
$counter = $counter + 1;
}
?>