Php string parse help

[total noob]

Hello to everyone

 

Can someone help me on how to parse this CSV string? I do not know how to parse string using PHP..

 

#1# "4","+447980123456","+447781484145","","2009-07-08","10:38:15","hello "","" world","Orange" "5","+447980123456","+447781484146","","2009-07-08","10:38:55","hello world","Orange"

 

 

This string can contain a much bigger data. I would like the result to be

 

Originator : +447781484145, Date : 2009-07-07, Time : 10:38:15, Message : hello world

Originator : +447781484146, Date : 2009-07-08, Time : 10:38:55, Message : hello world

 

 

Please guys if anyone of you knows how to parse this string it will be much appreciated. Im nearing my deadline for my work and this thing is keeping me from finishing it..

 

Thanks in advance

[The Little Guy]

Try this:

 

$str = '"4","+447980123456","+447781484145","","2009-07-08","10:38:15","hello "","" world","Orange"
"5","+447980123456","+447781484146","","2009-07-08","10:38:55","hello world","Orange"';
$arr = str_getcsv($str);
print_r($str);

[AyKay47]

was going to post an example as well, little guy beat me to it.. 

for documentation on the function that you need, str_getcsv

[total noob]

Hello guys..

 

I get an error..

 

Fatal error: Call to undefined function str_getcsv() in C:\wamp\www\a.php on line 4

 

Sorry for this but im not really that expert on using php..

 

Thanks again

[AyKay47]

what version of PHP are you running?

[total noob]

The version on of my php on my cpanel is 5.2

[total noob]

Can you help me sir?

 

thanks in advance

[AyKay47]

The version on of my php on my cpanel is 5.2

then you do not have access to this function, however on the php manual page that I linked you to, I found a function that should do the trick, will need tweaked for your output needs.

 

<?php 
function csv2array($input,$delimiter=',',$enclosure='"',$escape='\\'){ 
    $fields=explode($enclosure.$delimiter.$enclosure,substr($input,1,-1)); 
    foreach ($fields as $key=>$value) 
        $fields[$key]=str_replace($escape.$enclosure,$enclosure,$value); 
    return($fields); 
} 

function array2csv($input,$delimiter=',',$enclosure='"',$escape='\\'){ 
    foreach ($input as $key=>$value) 
        $input[$key]=str_replace($enclosure,$escape.$enclosure,$value); 
    return $enclosure.implode($enclosure.$delimiter.$enclosure,$input).$enclosure; 
} 

$data=array("one","\"two\""); 
for ($i=0;$i<100;$i++) $data=array(array2csv($data),$i); 
echo "Encoded $i times...".var_export($data,true)."\n"; 
for ($j=0;$j<$i;$j++) $data=csv2array($data[0]); 
echo "Decoded $i times...".var_export($data,true)."\n"; 
?> 

[total noob]

Thanks sir.. I really appreciate you effort on helping me.. I think i will modify the code on the link that you give me..

 

thanks again