read DAT file in to array UNTIL linebreak...?

mfacer

Hi,

I am currently reading in a DAT file (seperated by "|") in to an array using PHP. What I need to do is to read a whole line until I hit a line break... an example of the data is:

so is it possible to read in the line and output it, then read the next line??

My PHP looks like this so far:

$file = "files.dat";
$whattoread = @fopen($file, "r") or die("Could not find file");
$filecontents = fread($whattoread, filesize($file));
$data = array();
$data = explode("|", $filecontents);
$cExts = count($data);

for ($i=0;$i<=($cExts-1);$i++)
{ 
echo "$data[$i]\n";
}

So I need some sort of loop saying "do while there is no line break" Then once the code hits a line break it outputs the array, clears it, and reads the next line! or something like that... maybe I could use a 3d array? can this be done?!

cheers !!

bernouli

fgets() fgets return a line terminated by \n in Unix and \r\n in Windows.

$file = "files.dat";

$whattoread = @fopen($file, "r") or die("Could not find file");

while (!feof ($whattoread)) {
        $filecontents = fgets($whattoread,4096);
        $data = explode("|", $filecontents);
        $cExts = count($data);
        for ($i=0;$i<=($cExts-1);$i++) { 
                echo "$data[$i] ";
        }       

        echo "<br>";
}

mfacer

that works perfectly! thanks!!

Is there any way to get rid of HTML chars such as a line break? Like then people enter data in to the <text area> tag, it adds linebreak.. this is then outputted in HTML as <BR>...

I think striphtml()?? is that something?!!

Thanks v much!

bernouli

yap,
try nl2br() function

michael

Would it have been easier to use File()?

mfacer

whaddya mean?!

Weedpacket

file() would have read the entire DAT file into memory as an array, one line per array entry.