working with files

[dannyd]

Im trying to read a space delimted .txt file that looks like this:

 

1 060000 000200 XYZ-3052

3 060200 000015 XYZ-0132

5 060215 000015 XYZ-2724

7 060230 002829 CDY-2909

 

What im trying to do is identify the columns as well as the associated elements with a column within the file. Im trying to eventually store the elements into a database.

 

So I can identify that 060000 as the first column element.

[trq]

And your question / problem is?

[Isityou]

Use:

 

fgets($handle);

 

than explode() each line.

 

[kenrbnsn]

I would use fgetcsv() and specify the space as a delimiter.

 

Ken

[dannyd]

How do you handle a space delimited file where the fields aren't separated by just 1 space ? When I use explode and specify " " as the delimiter it doesnt seem to work.

 

In my .txt the spaces can vary between fields. How do I specify that as long as there is space to consider that as a delimiter ?

 

Thanks!