Reading Tab Delimited files

[netfrugal]

Opening and reading files doesn't seem so difficult. I've seen several good examples out there. I've been attempting to play with putting a text file into a tabular format in a browser. I've figured out adding new table rows, but separating the columns into new table cells is eluding me!

Here's what I've done so far:

<?

$filename = "file.txt";  // choose file
$fd = fopen ($filename, "r");  // open the file to be read
$contents = fread ($fd,filesize ($filename)); // put the readable file into $contents
fclose ($fd); // close the file after opening it for browser

$delimiter_new_row = "\n";  // choose a new line delimiter
$splitcontents_new_row = explode($delimiter_new_row, $contents);  // put 
$counter = "";
?>
<font color="blue" face="arial" size="4">Complete File Contents</font>
<hr>
<?= $contents; ?>
<br>
<br>
<font color="blue" face="arial" size="4">Split File Contents</font>
<hr>

<table width="100%" border="1">

<? // here we determine the number of <tr><td> ?>	

<? foreach ( $splitcontents_new_row as $ROWS_IN_FILE ){

$counter = $counter+1; 

?>
<tr><td><?= $counter . " ". $ROWS_IN_FILE; ?></td></tr>

<? } ?>
</table>

This reads my file just fine, and puts it into a nice table with 1 column. The multiple rows are working.

Any idea on how to get the columns to show properly?

[NogDog]

I would probably do something like:

$contents = file($filename); // read file into array of lines
echo "<table>\n";
foreach($contents as $line)  // loop through each line
{
   $fields = explode("\t", $line);  // make array of this line's fields
   // create table row with fields separated by "</td><td>":
   echo "<tr><td>" . implode("</td><td>", $fields) . "</td></tr>\n";
}
echo "</table>\n";