RE: [PHP-DB] external file content
| From: | John W. Holmes | Date: | Sun, 18 May 2003 20:40:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DB] external file content | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.db |
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> 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
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