hey guys
this is the script i've got... but i can't seem to get it right.
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$line = file('/home/local/file.txt');
$line2 = explode("\n", $line);
$i=0;
while($i <= count($line2)) {
$data = explode("|", $line[$i]);
echo "$data[$i]\n";
$i++;
}
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it only print out id1 and fname for id2.
can someone kindly assist me here..
thanks in advance.
Earl
----- Original Message -----
From: "John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net>
To: "'Earl'" <earl@caribsports.com>; "'PHP-DB'" <php-db@lists.php.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 2:40 PM
Subject: RE: external file content
> > this may seem like a simple thing to do but i'm just a newbie to PHP.
> > here goes.
> >
> > i've got and external life "/my/path/report.txt"
> > the content of this file is arranged as
> >
> > id1|fname|lname|address|country|post_code
> > id2|fname|lname|address|country|post_code
> > id3|fname|lname|address|country|post_code
> > id4|fname|lname|address|country|post_code
> > id5|fname|lname|address|country|post_code
> > id6|fname|lname|address|country|post_code
> > id7|fname|lname|address|country|post_code
> >
> > i would like to be able to read through the file and extract each line
> to
> > be places in a table.
>
> Read the file with the file() function to get each line as an element in
> an array. Loop through the array and explode each element by the |
> character. You've then got each part of the file in it's own variable.
>
> www.php.net/file
> www.php.net/explode
>
> ---John W. Holmes...
>
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>
>
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