Hi Ethan, fist you need to read the file, you could use the file() function which reads the file as an array, being each line an element; the you have to navigate the array and exploding the lines into an array: $data = file('myfile.txt'); foreach ($data AS $row) { $row = explode("\n", trim($row)); var_dump($row); } And there you go. Cheers. On 24 October 2010 16:46, Ethan Rosenberg <ethros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear list - > > Thanks for all your help. > > I have a tab delimited file which I wish to import into a data base. ÂIn > MySQL I can use the LOAD DATA command. ÂAs far as I know, that command > cannot be used in PHP as a mysqli_query. ÂAs I understand, I have to parse > the file and use the INSERT command. > > How do I do it? ÂCode samples, please. > > Thanks. > > Ethan > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- AndrÃs G. MontaÃez Zend Certified Engineer Montevideo - Uruguay -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php