Split function

NateDawg

I need some help using the SPLIT function. I need to split an entire file by || and put it in to an array.

I can't use just the SPLIT and LIST functions by themselves because then I would want to have hundreds of vairables in the LIST function.

I assume i need to use a for loop but I can't seem figure it out.

Any help would be very much appreciated 🙂

AstroTeg

Its entirely clear what you're looking to do and why you need to use [man]list[/man]. You could just do:

$myarray = split('||', $filecontents);

Check out what you can do with [man]split[/man].

NateDawg

Yeah I thout I could use just the split function but all I get in the output is Array.

I tried using the EXPLODE function too but it still outputs Array.

Here is the code im trying to use


$file = file_get_contents($filename);
$myarray = split('||', $file);
echo "$myarray";

AstroTeg

First, why

echo "$myarray";

Use:

echo $myarray;  // no quotes

Without quotes, this is a bit easier on PHP. Plus, its less typing for you.

Second, $myarray is an array. Which is what you originally asked for. Trick is you now have to handle outputting the array, which is not what you're doing. You can't just do echo $myarray and hope it works. PHP will just say "Array." So, you could use a for loop:

for($a = 0, $count = count($myarray); $a < $count; $a++)
  echo $myarray[$a] . '<br />';

You could use join/implode, but then I'd question why you're splitting/exploding and then rejoining/imploding. Because there might be an easier way to manipulate the string.