To make it better.

Anon

I have a script which at the moment works. But its only partially forfilling the purpose i made it.
I have a txt file called guests.txt
On each line there is 3 main values i want each seperated by tab dilimeters. eg,
NAME<tab char>EMAIL<tab char>BROWSER

I open my file up and perform the split function to seperate the string using the the tab pattern. And i successfully print them out from the arrays created using the split(); function.

<?php
if (!$file=fopen("guests.txt", "r")) {
echo ("Could Not open file");
} else {
$text = fread($file, 9999);
$pat = " ";
$arr = split($pat, $text);
echo ("
Username : $arr[0] \n
Email : $arr[1] \n
Browser : $arr[2] \n");
}
?>
This is the code i have come up with which works.
But i would like to ask if in the
$pat = " ";
Is it possible in anyway just to use \t to represent a tab character insead of a literal tab whitespace. I've tried many combinations but they just don't work.

I also have one last query and that is, so far this code only works for the file if it has just 1 line of string text.
But what if i had many lines of
NAME<tab char>EMAIL<tab char>BROWSER
how would i go about writing code which prints out all of these?
Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Elmer Lin

danzene

you can try a comma delimeted file instead of a tab delimted file. or any other character. this way you can do something like:
$pat=",";
$arr = split ($pat,$text)
i prefer a character delimeter because its more obvious for visual effects.

now, to answer your second question. you will need a loop to walk through the file's content. i see that you're opening the file for reading, try this.

$text_array=file("$text_dir/$fileName");
foreach ($text_array as $line)
{
$arr = split ($pat,$text);
echo "Username : $arr[0] \n
Email : $arr[1] \n
Browser : $arr[2] \n");
}

the concept should work. there might be some mistakes in the syntax, but the concept should work.

danZ

bfinucan

Hello,
You can use "[\t]" as your pattern.

bfinucan

Hello,
Something like this will print out each line of your file:

$stack = Array(
"one two three",
"four five six"
);

foreach ($stack AS $plate) {
$vals = split("[\t]", $plate);
foreach ($vals AS $val) {
echo $val . " ";
} //end foreach
} //end foreach