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thanks guys it would have taken me forever to discover your tips. "Yoed Anis" <yoed@zarcrom.com> wrote in message news:20011127232938.9721.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hey Guys, > > I'm having a trouble I can't seem to solve and hoped maybe one of you might > take a look and see if you can help me. > (If you don't want to learn my approach just skip to the bottom to help me > with the final bit.. skip to "hear") > > What I want to do is open the text file testtext.txt (attached) and input > all the information from one row (divided into fields and colum) and input > that into a database (mysql)... I thought the easiest way to do this is > split the fields in the row into an array... since they are all seperated by > spaces.... If only it was so easy. This is what I did: > > <code> > $count=0; > $fd = fopen ("./Testtext.txt", "r"); > while (!feof ($fd)) { > $buffer = fgets($fd, 4096); > $count++; > if($count > 2 && $count < 4){ > $thearray=split("[ ]+", $buffer); > $maxi=count($thearray); > for($i=0; $i<$maxi; $i++){ > echo "$thearray[$i] $i "; > } > echo "<br>"; > } > } > </code> > Ok now the echo statement above prints the following: > 07/29/2001 12:00 0 a 28.6 28.6 28.5 0.00000 31.2 -- 0 0.0 0.0 1018.8 3.1 > 6.3 N 28.0 1.9 0.00 0.0 74 23.4 32.1 10 12.00 1 > It looks all good till well the 0 (where did that come from?) after the > 12:00! But upon further code writing: > <code> > $wdate=$thearray[0]; > $wtime=$thearray[1]; > $wtimeampm=$thearray[2]; > > echo "<BR>The date of the data is : $wdate taken at the time of $wtime > $wtimampm"; > </code> > that prints: > The date of the data is : 07/29/2001 12:00 taken at the time of a 28.6 28.6 > 28.5 0.00000 31.2 -- 0 0.0 0.0 1018.8 3.1 6.3 N 28.0 1.9 0.00 0.0 74 23.4 > 32.1 10 12.00 > It looks as the array is having trouble splitting the date from the time > (why there is a space there!!??) and makes all the other data into one or > two other parts of the area (instead of the many fields). > > --HEAR-- > So I've narrowed it to this: $thearray=split("[ ]+", $buffer); > Does this look like what I should use to separate all my data in the array? > It gets this data from one row in the file testtext.txt which looks like all > fields are separated by at least one space. What should I do? > > Thanks a bunch, > Yoed > > > >