how can i read txt file, delimited by |

[Anon]

i am trying to use php to open a text file and display the contents which are delimited by the "|" pipe. imagine this as a table made up of 4 columns.

any ideas on how i can get php to parse this?

i've tried a few different methods, using split, split_preg, fopen and explode, but i can't seem to get it.

here is what i have now:

<?php
$file = file("filename.txt");
foreach($file as $lot){
$output = split('|', $lot);
print "$output[3], $output[2], output[1], $output[0]\n";
}
?>

this results in the following error:
bad regular expression for split()

any help is appreciated. it is very likely that i could be going about this the wrong way.

thanks.

p

[aaamin]

Try by using the coding given bellow. Hope you will succeed. I also succeed by using this code.

$fp = fopen($filename, "r") or die("Could not open the file");
while ($fp && !feof($fp))
{

$str = fgets($fp,2048);
$tok = strtok($str, "|");

while ($tok)
{
$tok = strtok("|");
echo $tok
}
}
fclose($fp);

[Anon]

this does work, thank you.

to go one step further, let\\'s say i have 20 rows of data in my table, and each row has 4 items, delimited by the \\"|\\" pipe (thus 4 columns).

i would like to be able to separate my 4 columns of data into 4 different strings, so that i might retrieve (and print) them individually.

for example, to print a list of the item #1 in each row, without printing the remaing item #\\'s 2,3,4 in each row.

[Anon]

Why dont you correct the error instead of trying to find a kludge?
PHP correctly stated there was a regex error in your statement : split( "|", $list).

IMHO you should escape the pipe symbol to get rid of its special meaning in a search expression