Re: extracting data from text file

>Hello , >I have a text file that looks like this. each entry is on a different >line I need to pull the data out of >it and put each line of data into its own variable > >US >State >City >Company Name >Section 2 >www.domain.com >admin@www.domain.com > >I have trend this but it does not work properly > > $fp = @fopen(file.txt,"r"); > $line = explode("\n",$fp); > $valueC = "$line[0]"; > $valueST = "$line[1]"; > @fclose($fp); $fp is a NUMBER. The first file you open is Number 1, the second is number 2, and so on. So you can't just go explode()ing $fp -- You've got to read some data. $data = fread($fp, 10000); or $data = fgets($fp, 100000000); or... Lots of choices, actually, depending on how the file is layed out. Now, some questions: How "regimented" is the data? Is it *really* clean and always the same number of lines? If so, a simple: $country = fgets($fp, 1000000); $state = fgets($fp, 1000000); . . . inside of a while(!feof($fp)){ loop will work. If there are sometimes some "missing" lines, or maybe sometimes two lines where there should be one, it gets a bit more tricky... You may need to look into http://php.net/strtok and do some high-falutin' artificial-intelligence analysis of the data coming it as you read it to "guess" which line is what... And definitely get rid of the @ symbol, or AT LEAST check the value of $fp and do something intelligent if it's no good. if (!$fp){ # send error message or whatver. exit; } -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm