Hi.
Does Magic Parser parse fixed format text files?
Hi again,
fscanf() should make it relatively easy to parse a fixed format text file.
The printf format specifier (also applies to fscanf) for a fixed width text field is, %xs, where is x is the width of the field, so let's say for example, your fixed format text file has 2 colums of 3 characters followed by 2 columns of 5 characters on each line, the fscanf() code to reach each of those fields into 4 appropriately named variables would be:
fscanf($handle,"%3s%3s%5s%4s",$field1,$field2,$field3,$field4);...or a more complete example:
$handle = fopen("filename.txt","r");
while(!feof($handle))
{
fscanf($handle,"%3s%3s%5s%4s",$field1,$field2,$field3,$field4);
// process $field1, $field2 etc. here!
}
fclose($handle);(fscanf() reads the file one line at a time)
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
Hi Eydun,
I assume you mean text files with fixed width fields rather than being separated by a known character - i'm afraid not if that's the case...
Cheers,
David.