RE: [PHP-WIN] reading lines from a file
| From: | George Pitcher | Date: | Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:58:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-WIN] reading lines from a file | ||
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Yes, eventually. I want to come up with a good method because this file is
going to be supplied to me on a fairly regular basis.
George
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG) [mailto:B.A.T.Svensson@lumc.nl]
> Sent: 11 February 2003 10:56 am
> To: George Pitcher; php-windows@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] reading lines from a file
>
>
> What do you want to do? Parse the file into tab-delimited data
> in order to bulk load it into the database?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: George Pitcher [mailto:george.pitcher@ingenta.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:41 AM
> > To: php-windows@lists.php.net
> > Subject: [PHP-WIN] reading lines from a file
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a huge file that I want to get into a db format.
> >
> > There are over 5000 records and I need to create fieldnames on the fly.
> >
> > Each record comprises a number of lines (fields) containing 2 elements
> > (fieldname [first 5 chars (which need rtrimming)], value [rest
> of line, some
> > with lots of text]).
> >
> > Some fieldnames are duplicated within a record so I need to
> rename these by
> > using a counter which is reset for each record (there are at least 5
> > fieldnames that are affected this way - so 5 counters).
> >
> > Some values contain subfields so I need to be able to handle
> these, but this
> > doesn't look frightening.
> >
> > And I would like to end up with an array with keys (fieldnames)
> and values.
> >
> > But I'm stuck at the first hurdle because I can't find out how
> to put a line
> > into a string.
> >
> > Any pointers?
> >
> > George in Oxford
> >
> >
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