Re: Parse Question Using list()

> $line = fgets($handle); > > list($col1, $col2, $col3) = $line; [8<] > echo "c1 is $col1 and c2 is $col2 and c3 is $col3".'<br>'; // this > shows > just 1st char of each field That's odd, I would have expected $col1, $col2, and $col3 to be NULL. That's what I get when I try to assign a string to list(). It expects a PHP array. You could tackle this in a couple of different ways. Either split your string into an array first: $line = fgets($handle); $columns = explode(",", trim($line)); list($col1,$col2,$col3) = $columns; Or look at using fgetcsv(), which will save you a step or two: http://php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php Ben