Re: fgetcsv() delimiters ?

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 08:03, Chris Blake wrote: > Greetings learned PHP(eople) > > The following code opens a text file and puts all the lines in the file > into an array, so that I can take each line and compile a nice table > with the order info in it. > [ snip ] > The problem is, I`m using the tab delimiter with fgetcsv(), but some of > the entries in the file were not entered using this format. Looking at > the text file content in vim it appears that a single space is used, or > some other delimiter. > > Do I need to loop through the file again using fgetcsv(), this time > using another delimiter value ? That sounds like a round-about way of doing it. If all you want is a list of values in an array, you can use the file() function, which does exactly that : $contents = file($filename); while(list($number,$line) = each($contents)) { echo "Line Number : ".$number." Contents : ".$line. "<br />"; } Then, you can use the explode function to lob each "delimited" part off with whatever delimiter you have. Seems to me calling fgetcsv() would lead to unnecessary overhead. My $0.02 -- Burhan Khalid phplist[at]meidomus[dot]com Please add a reply-to: header with the address of the list so replies will be relayed back to the list.