Re: Simple reading a file and extract fields

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Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
> I got a larger file which consists of lines with a defined length of 56

how large? for very big files it's dangerous to read them in all at once,
as was exampled in other replies. I would say that large in this case would
be anything bigger than 5 Mb (this is a very rough estimate, we could have
a whole thread devoted to this [issue])

> characters. Each line ends with a line feed (0A),
> 
> From each line I want one field from position 1 ~ 5 and field 2 from
> position 7 ~ 46.
> 

your uisng php5 I hope? if so (error checking code left as an
exercise to the reader):

<?php

foreach (array_filter(explode("\n", file_get_contents($myFile))) as $line) {
    echo substr($theDataLine[$i], 0, 5), " - ",
         substr($theDataLine[$i], 7, 46),"\n";
}

?>

low flying tip: http://php.net/<search_param/func_name/extension_name/etc>

http://php.net/foreach
http://php.net/array_filter
http://php.net/explode
http://php.net/file_get_contents
http://php.net/substr

RTFM is a mantra not an insult!

> I tried:
> 
> $myFile = "plaiso";
> $fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');
> $theDataLine = explode("\n",fgets($fh));
> 
> echo "Field1    Field2<p>";     // headline
> 
> for($i=0;$i<count($theDataLine);$i++){
> 
>     $Field1 = substr($theDataLine[$i], 0, 5);
>     $Field2 = substr($theDataLine[$i], 7, 46);
>     echo "$Field1 &nbsp; &nbsp; $Field2";
> }
> 
> It prints only the headline and the first record.
> 
> What do I miss?
> 
> bye
> 
> Ronald
> 

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