Printing out a specific string in a file

Hello guys im a newbie in php.. basically what i want to do it to print out the a certain string in a line. In this case, i want to retrieve out text that is after ":" and before policies.txt in the lines below for eg. Success or Failure.

I think i would need preg_match function because i would need to print out the strings from multiple findstr commands. Ideas are welcome thanks!

findstr /i /C:"User/Group Management : Success or Failure" policies.txt
findstr /i /C:"Privileged Account Logon: Failure" policies.txt

<?php
$batch_file = 'audit_policy.bat';
$batch_contents = file_get_contents($batch_file);



if (preg_match("/Privileged Account Logon:/i", "$batch_contents")) {
    echo "prints specific string here";
} else {
    echo "not found";
}
?> 

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Your descriptions vague so can't work-out what your looking for, but assuming your wanting to retrieve everything between two markers (after : and before policies.txt) try this:

<?php
$batch_file = 'audit_policy.bat';
$batch_contents = file_get_contents($batch_file);

/* an attempt to make it generic */
$starting_marker = "Privileged Account Logon";
$ending_marker = "policies.txt";

if (preg_match('~'.preg_quote($starting_marker).'\s*:(.+?)'.preg_quote($ending_marker).'~i', $batch_contents, $a)) {
    echo $a[1];
} else {
    echo "not found";
}
?>

PHP:

 

thanks a lot dude!