php use of text delimiters

[htmlDVWeaver]

Any 1 can help me with this.

 

I do have a set of data in a PDF file in the form of (first name: xxxxx, Last name: xxxx, Address, xxxx, and a lot of other info that I really don’t need..(The PDF file is about 500 sets of these fields).)  The problem here is the fields are in the following format:

 

First Name: xxxxxx

Xxxxxx (which is the last name without the label ‘Last Name:’)

Address: xxxxxxx

 

I want to write a script to go over the PDF file and extract only the three first fields (First. name, Last name and Address) to put them in a mySQL database.

 

Thanks a lot

 

[AndyB]

Is your problem abstractring the dta from the pdf file, or in separating individual items from the abstracted data? If it's the latter, then you might want to look at explode() to turn each line into an array and just abstract the array elements you want.

[jchemie]

Well,

  If you are able to extract text out of the pdf file, you can simply explode the text using the newline character... and include lines upto third semicolon you recieve(that is the obvious seperator i see to locate the new field).