$data = file('c:\file.txt'); for($counter = 0; $counter < count($data); $counter++) $data[$counter] = explode("\t",$data[$counter]); Poof. For: bob nina jim joe You will get: $data[0][0] = 'bob'; $data[0][1] = 'nina'; $data[0][2] = 'jim'; $data[0][3] = 'joe'; Nice and easy to recurse through. On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 12:10, Rick Dahl wrote: > I need to read from a file that is tab delimited. Is there anyway to specify that it reads between each tab and that is it. I know fread() uses bytes to figure out what to read but that isn't very practical in my case. > > Also, how do I get rid of any white space at the end of a variable if there is some once it is read in? > > - Rick -- Adam Voigt (adam@cryptocomm.com) Linux/Unix Network Administrator The Cryptocomm Group -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php