Trying to parse text file

kristersaurus

So, im trying to make a simple little tagboard. The idea is to open a text file using file(...), then go through each line of that array using foreach, then keep count of what string token im at, and only print the first two (name, message). However, the tokenizer doesnt seem to be advancing: it prints the first token twice.
Here she be:

<?php
$array = file("stuff.dat");
$strctpos = 0;
foreach($array as $line){
	for($strctpos="0";$strctpos<="3";$strctpos++){
	$tok=strtok($line, "%%||");
	if ($strctpos=="0"){print"<b>$tok</b>:";}
	else if ($strctpos=="1"){print" $tok<br>";}
	else {};	
	}	
}

Team planet go!

thorpe

im only new to php, but arent you using strings instead of integers?

try this;


$array = file("stuff.dat");
$strctpos = 0;
foreach($array as $line){
    for($strctpos=0;$strctpos<=3;$strctpos++){
    $tok=strtok($line, "%%||");
    if ($strctpos==0){print"<b>$tok</b>:";}
    else if ($strctpos==1){print" $tok<br>";}
    else {};    

    }    

}

kristersaurus

ah, good catch. I guess im just used to putting quotes around every number value from html. However, the problem is still there. Thanks anyway though.

Huuggee

why not use fopen() to open the file and then fgets() each line

$file = fopen('file.txt', r);

$counter=0;
  while (!feof($file)) {
     fgets($file);
     $counter++;
}

not my best code 😉

kristersaurus

its a possibility, but it still doesnt take care of sorting out the 2 first substrings (delimited by %%||).

Huuggee

so explode() what fgets() pulls back and print the first two elements of the returned array

kristersaurus

whoa what a great function. (Note this is the newbies portion of the forum). explode rocks my world. Thanks a lot.

Huuggee

sorry, i forgot.
i will try and explain better next time

kristersaurus

Hey no need to apologize. Got me where i needed to be.