Reading txt files

[Anon]

Hello Guys,

I'm new to reading txt files... I've had the luxury of using databases till now.

What I would like to do is put data from a text file into a database. To do this I want to read in a line (this i know how to do) and have all the strings in that line (they are usually seperated by a space) go into one array.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,
Yoepus

[vsego]

Check explode() and split() functions in manual.

[Anon]

I did, I do a:

$thearray=split("[ ]+", $buffer);

where buffer is all the info from one line, I am trying to seperate by space, and multiple spaces some 27 elements. However when echoing back $thearry[0] I get two strings (each seperated form a space from on eanother) then $thearray[1] return all the other 25 elements.

If anyone knows a solution to this, the help would be most appreciated.

Regards,
Yoepus

[vsego]

This works fine:
<?php
$buffer = "a b c d e";
$thearray=split("[ ]+", $buffer);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($thearray);
echo "</pre>";
?>

(your code copied)

Are you sure there are only spaces there? Not, for example, tabs?

With only spaces, this is fine as well:

$thearray=split(" +", $buffer);

With other "space-like" characters (tabs, line feeds,...):

$thearray=split("[[:space:]]+", $buffer);