split strings (text between characters)

[Stooney]

im reading from a textfile, and building an array with the data.  ex of text file:
[code]
|AEther Flash|,|7th Edition|,|Red|,|Enchantment|,|2RR|,|n/a|,| Whenever a creature comes into play, AEther Flash deals 2 damage to it.|,|As the foul beast appeared, arcane lightning crackled around it.#172|,|Wayne England|,|Uncommon|,0,7130
[/code]
that is one of many thousand lines in the file.

what i need to do is take this and build an array with it.  each element of the array will contain the text in between the ||.  So in the above example, array element 0 would be 'Aether Flash', 1 would be 7th Edition, and so on.  thnx in advance for the help :D

[hitman6003]

[code]$filename = "path/to/file.txt";
$file = file($filename);
$data = array();

foreach ($file as $line) {
  $data[] = explode("|,|",$line);
}

echo '<pre>';
print_r($data);
echo '</pre>';[/code]

[Stooney]

thnx a bunch.  i cant believe i didn't see that -_-    closest i got was explode(",", $data);  until i realized there were more commas than just those separating the data.

[kenrbnsn]

You should also look at the function [url=http://www.php.net/fgetcsv]fgetcsv()[/url] which will read your file, explode each line in one function.

Ken