Re: pulling text from a file

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Richard Kurth wrote:
I have a text file that looks like the one below. I need to read the file into a database.
I was trying the script below but is not working can you help?

$lines = file_get_contents('clientlist1.txt');

$find="Address:";
$f= strstr($f,$find);
$separat="City:";
$ADDRESS = substr($f, 0, strpos($f,$separat));
$ADDRESS=ltrim($ADDRESS,"Address:");
$ADDRESS=trim($ADDRESS);
echo $ADDRESS;
echo "<br>";

$find="City:";
$f= strstr($f,$find);
$separat="State:";
$CITY = substr($f, 0, strpos($f,$separat));
$CITY=ltrim($CITY,"City:");
$CITY=trim($CITY);
echo $CITY;
echo "<br>";

Text File

Address:      5070 myaddress.
City:     mycity     State:     mystate    Zip:     97268
County: Signers
Name:     my name

Address:      3925 myaddress.
City:     mycity2     State:     mystate2     Zip:     97268
County: Signers
Name:     my name2

If the place where you run this script has PHP > 5.1 installed, then you could use SimpleXML for this purpose. If the document MUST be in XML format. I don't know such methods in PHP 4, etc. On my server, I have PHP 5.2.5

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