array help needed !!!!

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I got a textfile who stores the users input.
I got it work to read each line in an Array but further i need to extract the data into single strings.

the textfile looks like
name|email|...
I know i want to be able to use them as $name and $email.....after i read them from the .txt file

Tx a lot

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tapir:
I got it work to read each line in an Array but further i need to extract the data into single strings.
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First a question for u:
what is exactly in the array?
* all lines each as one arrayelement:
("name0|email0|...", "name1|email1|...",...)

OR:
* one line split up into words as one array:
("name0", "email0", ...)

maybe, i can help you, if i know this.

Greetz,
EyE


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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>what is exactly in the array?
* all lines each as one arrayelement:
("name0|email0|...", "name1|email1|...",...)
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the array of the .txt file looks like above..
*exactly it looks like array0= name|email|...
array1= name|email|...
but i'm still not able to get these array values into $trings which i can use for further handling....

is there a use of regularexpresions needed ???

Tx for help....

Okay, so each array-element contains one entire line, which still has to be split up at the '|'-signs.
Do something like this:
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$lines = Array("name0|email0", "name1|email1|"); //etc.
for each $line in $lines{
$lineparts = explode ("|", $line);
// now do something with the data, e.g.
echo "the name is " . $lineparts[0] . " with email: " . $lineparts[1] . "n";
}
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( so, explode splits up a string at the specified delimiter, and returns an array with the split parts)
see also: http://www.php.net/manual/function.explode.php
or for general string-functions: http://www.php.net/manual/ref.strings.php

GoodLuck!

EyE

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[This message has been edited by EyE (edited June 08, 2000).]

if you have a string variable with value like:
name|email|...
you can convert it into an array by doing
$array_name = split("|", $string_name);

BUT... this morning i've just find out that you can't use "|" character as a delimiter...

Best regards,
Tata

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by weddeh:
if you have a string variable with value like:
name|email|...
you can convert it into an array by doing
$array_name = split("|", $string_name);

BUT... this morning i've just find out that you can't use "|" character as a delimiter...

Best regards,
Tata[/quote]

You can, you just need to escape it, i.e. split("|"$string). The split() function in PHP uses regexp engine (like in Perl), so you need to escape the pipe (|) since it is used in regexps (the "or" operator). If you want to split a string into an array without this hassle, use explode(), i.e.:
$array = explode("|", $string).