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Re: [PHP] fscanf syntax From: Brian Clark (brianj <email protected>)
Date: 03/30/01

Hi Patrick,

@ 9:04:59 PM on 3/30/2001, Patrick Brown wrote:

...
> hostname|protocol|number|severity|description

> Each record is on it's own line and have the fields delimited by the pipe
> character |. The file may have thousands of records and I would like to
> bring them into a database for reporting.

...
> What function should I use and what would the syntax be?

Try explode().

<?php

/* this could be read in from a file instead, of course. */
$line = 'hostname|protocol|number|severity|description';

$parts = explode('|',$line); /* like perl's split. */

while(list(,$part) = each($parts))
{
   /* do something with each $part */
   ...
}

?>

-Brian 

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