this is my first post. sorry if i did something wrong...
anyways i have a file that gets updates by php and this is EXACTLY it:
31
127
131
124
144
142
133
133
9
0
22
18
i made this script in php:
$logContents = file_get_contents("logs/mainlog.txt");
$logitemArray = explode("
", $logContents);
echo max($logitemArray);
but it echos 9. why? it said in the php documentation that max() should return the biggest value in the array
thanks in advance
explode() returns an array of strings, so they're being compared lexicographically. You need to convert them to numbers so that max() will compare them numerically.
$logitemArray = array_map('intval', explode("
", $logContents));
echo max($logitemArray);
BTW, you can use the file() function to read a file directly into an array of lines, instead of using file_get_contents() followed by explode().
$logitemArray = array_map('intval', file("logs/mainlog.txt", FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES));
Like the comments have said, it's because 9 is the largest lexigraphical value. If it said 900 it would still be the same.
This is because when you split the string with explode you get an array of type string. The following code will convert the elements in the array to integers which should give expected behaviour.
$logitemArray = array_map('intval', explode("
", $logContents));