Parsing Line-by-Line Into An Array

[Anon]

Hey Guys, could use some help.

I'm attempting to parse an HTML file remotely which I've been successful doing so far.

Basically, I've taken a large html page and trimmed it down to a section of data that I now want to parse.

Each line of data has a name which will not be the same everytime I peform the parse, followed by several columns of numbers. So basically like this:

John Doe 10 12 4 70
Jane Ire 12 11 6 67
Eric Doe 14 12 3 70

The formatting will always be the same, but as I said above, I won't know the order of names from parse-to-parse. Got any ideas on how I can get it into a series of variables, such as:

$Name[0]
$Number1[0]
$Number2[0]
$Number3[0]
$Number4[0]

$Name[1]
$Number1[1]
$Number2[1]
$Number3[1]
$Number4[1]

$Name[2]
$Number1[2]
$Number2[2]
$Number3[2]
$Number4[2]

Or split it into rows so that I can parse each variable individually. Such as:

$row[0]
$row[1]
$row[2]

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Joe

[Anon]

Is the table you're wanting to parse isolated in a string variable at this point - something like $string="John Doe 10 12 4 70 \nJane Ire 12 11 6 67 \nEric Doe 14 12 3 70 \n"? If that's the case then you should be able to get it into a $row array by

$row=explode("\n",$string);

(I say "should" because I'm not able to test the idea right now.)

A similar approach can break each row into fields:

list($Name[$i],$Number1[$i],$Number2[$i],$Number3[$i],$Number4[$i])=explode(" ",$row[$i);

...which also redistributes the pieces into Name and Number? arrays.

Hope this is a help.

[Anon]

Thanks for the advice.

The data is isolated into a string variable, but I don't believe it is seperated by new line breaks.

I'll take a look at it and see what I can do. I might try your second option and try to redistribute the data. That might work.

Thanks for the help.