Tab-seperate text into associative array

[Anon]

Would like to open a tab-separeted text file and fill it into a associative array.

function doGetTableFile ($aFilename) {
	$aDelimiter	= "\t";

	if (!($aFileRef = fopen($aFilename,"r")))
	{
		return false;
	}

	while (!feof($aFileRef))
	{
		$aCurrentLine			= fgetss ($aFileRef,255);
		$aTableList				= split ($aDelimiter,$aCurrentLine);

????????

	}
	fclose ($aFileRef);
	return $aTable;
}

[Anon]

Try this:

function doGetTableFile ($aFilename) {
$aDelimiter = "\t";

if (!($aFileRef = fopen($aFilename,"r")))
{
return false;
}
$aTable = array ();
while (!feof($aFileRef))
{
$aCurrentLine = fgetss ($aFileRef,255);
$aTemp = explode ($aDelimeter, $aCurrentLine);
$aTable[$aTemp[0]] = $aTemp[1];

}
fclose ($aFileRef);
return $aTable;
}

[Anon]

Thanks but...

my list has five columns seprareted by tabs and the first item of each row should be the key of the other 4 items

sample-table:
AKL 1265 1950 2585 2680
BKK 865 1330 1535 1790
BNE 1130 1740 2370 2470
BWN 990 1525 1710 1890

[Anon]

Then use
$aTable[array_shift ($aTemp)] = $aTemp;

[Anon]

Thank you very much

[Anon]

I've been following this thread because I rather need to do the same thing...

However, array_shift() doesn't seem to exist in PHP3. How would that program be done without it?

Thanks,
Pete

[Anon]

Write your own function that does the same thing:

function my_array_shift (&$array)
{
$nval = array ();
for ($i = 1; $i < count ($array); $i++)
$rval[] = $array[$i];
$rval = $array[0];
$array = $nval;
return $rval;
}