Reading in a multidimentianal array from a file?

Anon

I am having problems trying to figure out how to to read in a tab delimited text file such that I can access the contents as an associative array.

For example, I have a tab delimited file (listing.txt) that contains items as follows (note this example has spaces, but the real file indeed uses tabs):

100 $10 L Red
200 $20 M Green
300 $30 S Blue

My PHP code is as follows:

<?
$list = file("listing.txt");
for ($i = 0; $i<count($list); $i++) {
$line = explode("\t", $list[$i]);
$item[$line[0]][id] = $line[0];
$item[$line[0]][price] = $line[1];
$item[$line[0]][size] = $line[2];
$item[$line[0]][color] = $line[3];

}
echo $item[200][color]; // Should be "Green"
?>

I would think that the above would retrieve the requested data and print out "Green". However, it returns nothing. Where have I gone wrong?

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

-Bob

Anon

Not sure I tested your code on my sevrer and it indeed printed Green, maybe try putting a ./ before listing.txt, it might be possible that it can't find the txt file

Anon

Works this way:

<?
$list = file("listing.txt");
for ($i = 0; $i<count($list); $i++) {
$line = explode("\t", $list[$i]);
$item[$list[0]][id] = $line[0];
$item[$list[0]][price] = $line[1];
$item[$list[0]][size] = $line[2];
$item[$list[0]][color] = $line[3];
}
echo $item[$list[1][color]; // Gives you "Green" (1 - is the second line in your file)
?>