Splitting Text Files

[nutcais]

Hi, I'm trying (my hardest) to figure this out, but I'm stumped..

I'm trying to write a php shell script that opens a text file, reads it splits it up and then puts the relevant parts into a db.. The layout of the text file is below (more or less!):

!user Desktop.ini ------------------------------------------------------ 73b
!user some help file.txt ---------------------------------------------- 4kb
!user some_random_file_naskdjasldjasdljkasdljasdljkasdljkasdljk 2kb

What i want to do is split the !user bit the actual filename and the size (dropping the ---- if they are present)..

I've look at ereg etc and can't work out how to do it.. Any ideas?

The code I've got (up till opening the file) is:

$command = "/bin/grep ^! $filename >> $newfilename";
exec($command);

$fp = fopen ($newfilename, "r");
$contents = fread ($fp, filesize ($newfilename));
fclose ($fp);

(simple) but where do I go from there?

Cheers

Nut

[thoand]

Have you tried explode() ?

eg.

//Seperate the parts based there are a space.
$foo = explode(" ", "!user Desktop.ini ------------------------------------------------------ 73b");

//Acording to your format $foo will now be in 4 parts.

echo $foo[0]."<br>"; //!user
echo $foo[1]."<br>"; //!Desktop.ini
echo $foo[2]."<br>"; // --- [...]
echo $foo[3]."<br>"; // 73b

I think this is what you are looking for.
good luck

regards
Thomas A.

[nutcais]

Won't explode split everytime it finds a space though? Some filenames in the list have spaces in, some don't. Thought about doing it on the length, but they're all different lengths and what not..