Help with ip block

[Nightfire]

$banned_ips = array("BANNED_IP", "another baned ip");


function is_ip_banned($REMOTE_ADDR,$banned_ips) {
if(is_array($banned_ips))
{
$banned_ips = str_replace("*", "[0-9]{1,3}", $banned_ips);
while (list($key,$value) = each($banned_ips))
{
if(ereg($banned_ips[$key], $REMOTE_ADDR))
{
die("You have been banned. If you believe this has been done in
error, contact the webmaster.");
}
}
}
}


I have a huge file of ip's to block for a clients site, is there an easier way to block the ip's than listing each one in the array? Can I include a file there?

[Spookster]

Are you storing them in a text file? Don't have access to database?

[Nightfire]

The site I'm working on doesn't have a database, only flat files I'm afriad :(

[Nightfire]

Any ideas?

[Spookster]

Instead of reading all the IP's from the file into an array then searching why not just search the file for the matching IP.