Parsing By A Character

[Anon]

Here it is. I need to parse a text file into diffrent arrays whenever there is a "~n" in the text file.
Example of the text file is:
11111 ~n
22222 ~n
33333 ~n
44444 ~n
55555 ~n

This would mean whenever there is a ~n the array would increase.
In this case:
array[0] = 11111
array[1] = 22222
array[2] = 33333
array[3] = 44444
array[4] = 55555

Any help would be very much helpful, thanxs and you experts keep up your good work! =)

DarkBoy

[[deleted]]

Ok, let me give this a shot....

//this script assumes that you don't want the space before the ~n either

$file = "11111 ~n
22222 ~n
33333 ~n
44444 ~n
55555 ~n";

$file = ereg_replace(" ~n","",$file);
$array = explode("\n",$file);
foreach($array as $value) {
echo $value . "<BR>\n";
}

See how that goes for you....obviously you will need to read the file into $file with something like :

$file = join ('', file ('/path/to/file.txt'));

Of course, you could always read the file in with file also, and then use preg_replace to go through the array and replace the ~n's.....

Matt Wade
codewalkers.com

[Anon]

Obviously, that assumes that " ~n" is always at the end of a line, and newlines never occur without a ~n. It looks that way from the example, but where's the percentage in being a boy racer?

$file=str_replace("\n","",$file);
$array=explode(' ~n',$file);

...which of course assumes that newlines aren't wanted at all.