Text file help

[etrnly]

Hello,

I am pretty new to php and have been trying to figure out how to read this comma seperated txt file and return in it in a csv file. The problem I run into is when lines in the txt file are different lengths.

Here is an example of the code I have been using. This is coming from a upload form.
$fp = file("$upfile");

for($i=0; $i < count($fp); $i++)
{
echo $tmp[1] .','. $tmp[17].','. $tmp[0].','. $tmp[2].','. $tmp[0].','. $tmp[1].','. $tmp[7].','. $tmp[8] .'<br />';

}

The this works great as long as the line is only 17 places long. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have been searching everywhere without any luck.

thanks,
Kyle

[Weedpacket]

You could use [man]explode[/man] to break each line on commas, but if the entries on each line might have commas of their own, [man]fgetcsv[/man] would be more robust.

[etrnly]

Thanks for the reply I really appreciate it. I have actually tried that. The main problem I am running into is this, I am always needing to grab that same field on each line. So, when a line changes from 16 to 18 words that 16th word has now moved. Thats were I keep getting stuck.

I am not sure how where to go from here with it.