sbrinley Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I'm trying to take a block of text that is formatted very poorly and put it into something that is more database friendly. Here is an example of the text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert, Kyle 050359 92501 Temp sunshade ID IN Dept ACTIVITY OUT ID IN Dept ACTIVITY OUT TOTALS Mon 01/04 553a 611p 12.00 12.00 Tue 01/05 552a 603p 12.00 24.00 Wed 01/06 558a 647p*L 12.00 36.00 Thu 01/07 632a*L 909a*E 2.60 38.60 Acct:92501 TempRg: 38.60 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aldridge,Jennie M 0001090916 026991 Plt 2 Shipping ID IN Dept ACTIVITY OUT ID IN Dept ACTIVITY OUT TOTALS Mon 01/04 538a 431p 10.00 10.00 Tue 01/05 541a 431p 10.00 20.00 Wed 01/06 541a 448p 10.00 30.00 Thu 01/07 547a 5.00 35.00 Acct:026991 REG: 35.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal is to get it to look something like this: Name ID Workcenter Date hrs worked Albert, Kyle 050359 92501 01/04/10 12 Albert, Kyle 050359 92501 01/05/10 12 Albert, Kyle 050359 92501 01/06/10 12 Albert, Kyle 050359 92501 01/07/10 2 Aldridge,Jennie 0001090916 026991 01/04/10 10 Aldridge,Jennie 0001090916 026991 01/05/10 10 Aldridge,Jennie 0001090916 026991 01/06/10 10 Aldridge,Jennie 0001090916 026991 01/07/10 5 The data will always be in the same place in the file. I'm not even sure what method would work to go through the the file to make this happen. I'm not exactly looking for a complete answer but more of a nudge in the right direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamatomic Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 use file() and put it into an array. Set a counter and loop through looking for dashed lines. When you find one stuff all the lines into an array using the counter as the key, stop when you hit another dashed line and start again. When your done with the file you are going to have an array with each block as an array. You can then loop through and figure out what you need to do to each line to get what you need. HTH Teamatomic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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