Simple file to array question

[timmerk]

Hi,

I have a txt file with data like:

http://www.stateinfo.org/maine<TAB HERE>Maine
http://www.stateinfo.org/arizona<TAB HERE>Arizona
http://www.stateinfo.org/michigan<TAB HERE> Michigan

(replace the <TAB HERE> with an actual tab)

I want to load it into an multidimensional array, both the URL and state name.

I looked at file() and think this might help.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

[bubblenut]

You could use file, but then you'd have to run through the array one with the file command when it get's filled), oncle to split each element to make a multidimetional array and then hoevermany times you use the array. It would be more efficient to open a file handle, use fgets() to get each line then explode("\t",$string) to split them on the tab. It'll look something like this.

<?php
$fh=fopen($file,'r');
for($i=0;$buffer=fgets($file);$i++) {
  $buff_parts=explode("\t",$buffer);
  $output[$i]['URL']=$buff_parts[0];
  $output[$i]['state']=$buff_parts[1];
}
print_r($output);
?>

HTH
Bubble