Parsing Question

[KashKurcura]

Hello:

I have a text file with the following information:

Name1: John
Name2: Doe
Email: [e-mail]

My Question is how can I parse this file so that I get the three different vars $Name1, $Name2, $Email?

Thanks!

[weekender]

first you need to read the file, using [man]file/man;

then, when you have the file in a string

//$contents is the data from the file

//split contents by \n (newline)
$lines = explode("\n", $contents);

//loop through each line
foreach($lines AS $row){
//split the line by ": "
$parts = explode(": ", $row);
//set the variable name and value
$$parts[0] = $parts[1];
}

hope that helps

adam

[KashKurcura]

Thanks, this is what I have so far... Although I'm running into one problem, when i echo $split[6] it includes more information then what is on that line. Any help?

$file_contents = "Name1:  John
Name2:  Doe
Ctry:   US
State:  ca
Postl:  90210
Email:  [email][e-mail][/email]

For more information simply
reply with this entire email message to:
[email][e-mail][/email]";

$lines = explode("\r", $file_contents); 


foreach($lines as $value) {
    $split = explode(': ', trim($value));
    $$split[0] = $split[1];
}

echo "$split[6]";

[weekender]

no, you cant echo like that

in the foreach loop, $split[0] is the key (the bit before the ": ") and $split[1] is the value

after the loop has finished, you echo like this

echo $name1 . "<BR>";
echo $name2 . "<BR>";
echo $Ctry . "<BR>";

you have distinct variables outside of the array

[KashKurcura]

Oh ok.. Well I can echo $Name1 but how come I cant echo $Email?

[drawmack]

wouldn't it be a lot more flexible to create a text file with a layout like this:

Name1: John
Name2: Doe
Email: [email][e-mail][/email]

and then read the file in with http://www.php.net/file which will put it into the array for you?