Help: File parsing

sumit1

If my file format is like this:
Eugene,Tan,45,1
Charles,Babbage,42.5,1

<?
if(!$fp=fopen("emp.txt","r")){
echo("errrrrrrrrr");}
else
{
while (!feof($fp) ) {
$buffer = fgets($fp, 4096);
$eachword =exploe(",",buffer); for($i=0;$i<count($eachword);$i=$i+1)
print"$eachword[$i]<br>\n";
}
}
?>
Now my problem is that when i write for loop outside while loop it dosent work it means that array eachword is not initialized.Why???is so coz explode returns array of string and
array once initlialized can be used any where.
one more thing HOW CAN WE INCRIMENT ARRAY SUBSCRIPTS????Plz help me at the earliest.

deckrdx

I you have the for loop outside the while loop, you are getting a count of an uninitalized array, and thus will be 0 times.

Is this a school assignment?

sumit1

thanx for help. But if I have to use for loop outside while loop, how it can be done.How can we increment the array subscripts???

Anon

What are you trying to do with this file? If you want to read it into an array, do this:

$file=file("emp.txt"); // read it in
$name=array();
$num1=array();
$num2=array();

foreach ($file as $line) {
$items=explode(",",$line);
$name[]=$items[0]." ".$items[1];
$num1[]=$items[2];
$num2[]=$items[3];
}

and that will store the name in the $name array, and the numbers in $num1 and $num2 respectively.

Hope that helps.

Dave