Parsing a local file

I am trying to build script that will parse a file on the user's computer. There are 2 things that I am not quite sure about. 1) How to read a file on the user's computer, and not on the server. 2) How to parse a line similar to the one below: "7/29/2003" , "Report Title" , "Page" , "Agent Name" , "5200" , "30" , "3:30" , "" , "" , "" Now, in this line, there are items that I would like to discard. As well, there are items between the "s that I would like the parse further. Below is how I would like it parsed "$month/$day/$year" , "DISCARD" , "DISCARD" , "DISCARD" , "$agentid" , "$calls_taken" , "$avg_call_time" , "DISCARD" , "DISCARD" , "DISCARD" Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jason