Re: Setting variables from a text file

Someone may have a better way but you can read each line (assuming the file uses \n for a new record) and use: arrayname = explode("|",$variable_holding_line_from_file); Then you can do assign the variables as such: $name = $arrayname[0]; etc Could be a better way from the list :) Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rudi Ahlers" <kopspier@bigfoot.com> To: "PHP General" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 3:08 PM Subject: [PHP] Setting variables from a text file > Hi > > Say I have a text file, separated by "|" ( a pipe). Now, I want to extract > that info, in the form of variables. I can extract and display the info in > the text files, but that's not what I want. I want to be able to tell it > that the first entry should be variable1, the second entry should be > variable2, etc. I add the info into the file with a script, that always adds > variable1 into field one, variable2 into field2, etc. These variables are > taken from a form. Now, I need to pass those variables onto another script, > but I need to be able to extract them. Can anyone help me with this please? > Thank you > > Rudi Ahlers > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >