Problems with list()

[Anon]

Ok. I am new to PHP and I am coming from a strictly c, cpp, perl background. So, the language is pretty familiar and I am having a great time time learning...BUT...I am having some problems with the list() function.

Here is some code:

<?

$USERDB = fopen("users.db", "r");

while ($line = fgets ($USERDB, 4096))
{
list ($name, $occupation, $favcolor) = split ("|", $line);

    print ("Name: $name<br>");
    print ("Job: $occupation<br>");
    print ("Favorite Color: $favcolor<br>");

}

fclose ($USERD😎;

?>

END CODE

And here is whats in the text file:

Van Tate|Software Engineer|Green

END TEXT FILE

Pretty simple, eh? Now...when I execute the script I get this error:

Warning: bad regular expression for split() in /var/www/html/v2/getusers.php on line 7

I dont see the problem.

[rodif_bl]

i think that | is a special char in a regular expresion.

try:
list ($name, $occupation, $favcolor) = split ("|", $line);

but if i were you i would use

$file = file("file.db");
foreach($file as $line)
{
$vals = explode("|",$line);
print ("Name: " . $vals[0] . "<br>");
print ("Job: " . $vals[1] . "<br>");
print ("Favorite Color: " . $vals[2] . "<br>");
}