Re: How to read a text file with variable line length?

http://php.net/fgets -- WARNING richard@zend.com address is an endangered species -- Use ceo@l-i-e.com Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes <nando@antunes.eti.br> Newsgroups: php.general To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 9:19 PM Subject: How to read a text file with variable line length? > Hello all, > > I would like to ask the following help concerning text files. > > I've got column delimited text files and I need to read each line/record to > populate a MySQL table. > > I understand that when you use fread($file, $length) you must specify the > length of each line. The problem is that the last column is a description > column and it can be from zero chars to 50 chars long. Because of that the > length of each line is not a fixed number. > > What to do in a situation like this? > > Thanks in advance, > > Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes.