File parsing

[MikeA]

Can someone give me a quick script or an idea for doing the following.

example.txt contains the following:

1111 222 33 4444 555
1111 22 3333 44 5555

How would I write a script to put each column into it's own variable, so that line 1 might be:

$a = 1111
$b = 222
$c = 33
$d = 4444
$e = 555

Thanks

[blindeddie]

I am assuming that you have figured out how to read the lines of the text file, so if you have gotten that far, use the following code to assign the columns to variables.

list($a,$b,$c,$d,$e) = split(' ',$your_textline_variable);

the split function is splitting the contents of the variable at each Space. you will need to use some kind of looping to handle multiple line in the file.

Hope this helps

Ed Warren

[MikeA]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.