PHP to search within txt file and echo the whole line

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And a PHP example, multiple matching lines will be displayed:

<?php
$file="somefile.txt";
$searchfor="name";

// the following line prevents the browser from parsing this as HTML.
header('Content-Type: text/plain');

// get the file contents, assuming the file to be readable (and exist)
$contents = file_get_contents($file);

// escape special characters in the query
$pattern = preg_quote($searchfor, "https://stackoverflow.com/");

// finalise the regular expression, matching the whole line
$pattern = "/^.*$pattern.*\$/m";

// search, and store all matching occurences in $matches
if (preg_match_all($pattern, $contents, $matches))
{
   echo "Found matches:\n";
   echo implode("\n", $matches[0]);
}
else
{
   echo "No matches found";
}

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