[Beginner] Reading a file into an array (hash)

[Anders Eriksson]

Hello!

I'm a beginner at PHP and I wonder how I would go about to read a textfile
into an array(hash).

The textfile looks like this:

A/S=age/sex?
A/S/L=age/sex/location?
AA=alcoholics anonymous
AAA=travel club
AAAAA=travel club for alcoholics / american association against acronym
abuse
AAMOF=as a matter of fact
....

It's a file of acronyms, where the first part (before the =) is the acronym
and the second part is the explanation.

I want to read this into an array so that I can access the array with the
acronym and get the explanation. e.g.
$key = 'AAA';
$expl = $acro[$key]

How do I accomplish this in php?

// Anders

[Ken Robinson]

Anders Eriksson wrote:

Hello!

I'm a beginner at PHP and I wonder how I would go about to read a textfile into an array(hash).

The textfile looks like this:

A/S=age/sex?
A/S/L=age/sex/location?
AA=alcoholics anonymous
AAA=travel club
AAAAA=travel club for alcoholics / american association against acronym abuse
AAMOF=as a matter of fact
...

It's a file of acronyms, where the first part (before the =) is the acronym and the second part is the explanation.

I want to read this into an array so that I can access the array with the acronym and get the explanation. e.g.
$key = 'AAA';
$expl = $acro[$key]

Take a look at the function parse_ini_file( ) at
http://www.php.net/parse_ini_file

Given the PHP file:
<?
$ac = parse_ini_file( 'testfile.ini') ;
print_r ($ac);
?>

and the file 'testfile.ini' containing:
A/S=age/sex?
A/S/L=age/sex/location?
AA=alcoholics anonymous
AAA=travel club
AAAAA=travel club for alcoholics / american association against acronym
abuse
AAMOF=as a matter of fact

The results are:
Array
(
[A/S] => age/sex?
[A/S/L] => age/sex/location?
[AA] => alcoholics anonymous
[AAA] => travel club
[AAAAA] => travel club for alcoholics / american association
against acronym abuse
[AAMOF] => as a matter of fact
)
Ken

[Anders Eriksson]

Hello Ken,

On 3 May 2005 06:49:00 -0700, Ken Robinson wrote:

Anders Eriksson wrote:

I'm a beginner at PHP and I wonder how I would go about to read a

textfile

into an array(hash).

Take a look at the function parse_ini_file( ) at
http://www.php.net/parse_ini_file

Given the PHP file:
<?
$ac = parse_ini_file( 'testfile.ini') ;
print_r ($ac);
?>

Unfortunately can't the parse_ini_file read all characters. As soon as it
finds a ( ) ! " it stops.

So I found an user function that does the same thing and that can read all
characters.

Thank you for your help!

// Anders