file delimited

Hi, I'm new to php I just come from perl, and I wanted to know like perl if we can open a file and read delimited line just like the cvs function, but I don't want comma separated, i want the vertical bar '|'. also if we read that file can the 'column' go in an array like perl i.e if we have a record Name|Phone|address|age|email can we put it into an array like $record[] and say $record[0] is Name, $record[1] is Phone etc.... Any help is well appreciated.