Newbie Question

I have a text file with 6 colums of data. I need to read it and in
colums 2 and 3 do something to the data. First of all I can read the
file (all of it) or some of it ie one line



$myFile = "orbit.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');
$theData = fgets($fh);
fclose($fh);
echo $theData;


?>.

and this is ok. How to get to the data in colum 2 and 3 of this thing
called $theData?

Also I need to put a loop around it for i = 0 to end of file (do
something)
as in basic.

regards

Hardy

Re: Newbie Question

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:38:42 +0100, HardySpicer =

wrote:

> I have a text file with 6 colums of data. I need to read it and in
> colums 2 and 3 do something to the data. First of all I can read the
> file (all of it) or some of it ie one line
>
> >
>
> $myFile =3D "orbit.txt";
> $fh =3D fopen($myFile, 'r');
> $theData =3D fgets($fh);
> fclose($fh);
> echo $theData;
>
>
> ?>.
>
> and this is ok. How to get to the data in colum 2 and 3 of this thing
> called $theData?
>
> Also I need to put a loop around it for i =3D 0 to end of file (do
> something)
> as in basic.

It all depends on how your file is formatted/how these elusive 'columns'=
=

are defined.
Probably csv, then this is something you want:

$myFile =3D 'file.csv';
$fh =3D fopen($myFile);
while($row =3D fgetcsv($fh)){
echo "
value 2: {$row[1]}
value 3: {$row[2]}":
}
?>
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Rik Wasmus