Hlp me explode() this txt file!

[lansupport]

I have a txt file that appears tab-delimited, but in reality, it's not (it's full of <CR>'s & <LF>'s). I need to display the contents of the entire file (or parts - doesn't matter) in neatly-arranged columns, like the original. Taking from the examples at www.php.net, I have this:

$pizza = "piece1 piece2 piece3 piece4 piece5 piece6";
$pieces = explode(" ", $pizza);

$data = "foo:*:1023:1000::/home/foo:/bin/sh";
list($user,$pass,$uid,$gid,$gecos,$home,$shell) = explode(":",$data);

But after several hours of experimenting, I haven't figured out what I need to echo to display the contents of the arrays. I'm sure this is an easy one, but I can't seem to get it. Is explode() the right thing to be using here? Help Plz?!?

[Anon]

if each piece of information is on a new line, you can always pull each line of the file into an array:

$array=file(textfile.txt);

--why don't you post an example of how your text file is formated so me or someone else can show you an example.

[lansupport]

Here's the text file: http://dale.grimal.com/test/rpt_fil.txt

So far, what I've been doing to let them see their stats is just <a href="rpt_fil.txt" target="_new">, but that doesn't make the text look pretty. I figured my answer was to explode each individual line, so I could simply <td><? echo $CELL22; ?></td> or something. I realize this is a pretty big file to be doing this on - is this the right approach?