Text input to CSV?

[Scriptmaker]

Could someone please point me in the right direction for the following application?:

I need to take about 15 lines of text that looks like this:

Order number (always starts with a #)
Title
Quantity

Random
Useless
Text,
Buttons
and
Graphics

First Name Last Name
Address1
Address2 (if applicable, if no address2, nothing here)
City, ST, ZIPCODE

USA

I would like to be able to copy and paste the entire contents of many of these pages (with different info on each) into one textarea and have PHP extract the information and build a .csv file in the following format:

Order number,Title,Quantity,First Name,Last Name,Address1,Address2,City, ST, ZIPCODE,Country

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I'm thinking I'll have to use some regular expressions, but like I mentioned before, I could really use some general guidance on how to attack this.

Thank you very much,
Jorge

[ManWithNoName]

PHP has some CSV functions, I do not know anything about them, but I have bumbled into them when looking for other stuff, search the manual for CSV and see if you find what you're looking for. Good luck.

[laserlight]

It sounds like you want to use [man]file/man with [man]fputcsv/man.

[Scriptmaker]

Looks like I've got the csv end covered now thanks to you guys. Think regular expressions would be the way to go for the first part? I've been reading some tuts on the subject. I like how one guy put it: it's like learning another programming language.