sysengrnz

Hi Guys - I'm very new to PHP and I have been reading for quite some time but I'm not quite understanding a specific component. Basically what I am trying to achieve is; [Not sure how to put it in english so I'll step through what I am doing initially in list form;] 1. I run a script which outputs a generically 6x lines of text (Will always be 6 lines) followed by outputting "a variable" amount of rows which contain data which I would like to store as individual variables which are parsed into an array which I can then use to pull and insert in to a specific MYSQL database. The way that the text file is layed out seems very straight forward; I.E... 15 columns containing data 11 columns containing no data / blank / spacial seperators Variable amount of rows Each column has a specific "descriptor" - name of the colum/purpose My current script is below - starting it off; - Using it for self learning purposes <?php //Defines a variable for the results file I'm pulling information from; $myFile = "./'results file here.txt'"; // Define a variable and the string that is pulled from line 8 in the results file will be outputted $row1 = file($myFile); //Pulls First Row of the specific file echo $lines[8]; // Line 8 ?> What I am hoping to do is some how produce a regular expression which will create a variable dynamically depending on the amount of rows that are present and add that content to an array. From here I would like to pull the specific column values from each row and output them in to a new array which I can then use to drop the column and row information in to the MYSQL Database. The main question is - Is this an unorthadox over complicated way of achieving something that potentially could be done using an export/import type function within PHP? The last thing I would like to see is me trying to script an EXPORT function which has already been created for this exact purpose Any assistance would be hugely appreciated - sorry if this makes no sense. Thanks A