Removing quotes from an array, string or txt file see code

[Techie Guy]

I'm trying to process a tab delimited file where each line in the file
has around 12 tab delimited elements. My problem is the elements are
surrounded by "quotes" and I need the script to remove the quotes
after loading the file to the $addresses variable.
The quotes need to be removed somewhere within the code below or by
processing the file before loading.

//read in the name and address lines from the txt file
//each line becomes an element in the array
$addresses= file("download. txt");

//count the number of address lines in the array
$number_of_addr esses = count($addresse s);
if ($number_of_add resses == 0)
{
echo "No addresses to process";
}

echo "<table>";

for($i=1; $i<$number_of_a ddresses; $i++)
{
//split each line or row
$line = explode("\t",$a ddresses[$i]);

TIA

More info if required

[Joe Estock]

Techie Guy wrote:

I'm trying to process a tab delimited file where each line in the file
has around 12 tab delimited elements. My problem is the elements are
surrounded by "quotes" and I need the script to remove the quotes
after loading the file to the $addresses variable.
The quotes need to be removed somewhere within the code below or by
processing the file before loading.
Simple.

//read in the name and address lines from the txt file
//each line becomes an element in the array
$addresses= file("download. txt");
This is a rather barbaric way to read in a file. What happens if the
file is larger than the memory PHP is allowed to use? You should
concider reading the file in line by line instead with the following:

$fp = fopen('download .txt', 'r');

while(!feof($fp ))
{
$line = fgets($fp);
/* do stuff */
}

fclose($fp);

//count the number of address lines in the array
$number_of_addr esses = count($addresse s);
if ($number_of_add resses == 0)
{
echo "No addresses to process";
}

echo "<table>";

for($i=1; $i<$number_of_a ddresses; $i++)
{
//split each line or row
Before you split the line using explode, simply do:

$line = explode("\t", str_replace('"' , '', $addresses[$i]));
$line = explode("\t",$a ddresses[$i]);

TIA

More info if required

TIA? IMHO this is bad netiquette - if you can't be bothered to take the
time to write out "Thanks in advance" why should we be bothered to help?

Cheers,

Joe

[Techie Guy]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:01:07 GMT, Joe Estock
<je*****@NOSPAM nutextonline.co m> wrote:

Techie Guy wrote:

I'm trying to process a tab delimited file where each line in the file
has around 12 tab delimited elements. My problem is the elements are
surrounded by "quotes" and I need the script to remove the quotes
after loading the file to the $addresses variable.
The quotes need to be removed somewhere within the code below or by
processing the file before loading.
Simple.

//read in the name and address lines from the txt file
//each line becomes an element in the array
$addresses= file("download. txt");

This is a rather barbaric way to read in a file. What happens if the
file is larger than the memory PHP is allowed to use? You should
concider reading the file in line by line instead with the following:

$fp = fopen('download .txt', 'r');

while(!feof($f p))
{
$line = fgets($fp);
/* do stuff */
}

fclose($fp);

Point taken the file rarely has more than 20 lines but I will use the
code supplied because I think it is an improvement.

//count the number of address lines in the array
$number_of_addr esses = count($addresse s);
if ($number_of_add resses == 0)
{
echo "No addresses to process";
}

echo "<table>";

for($i=1; $i<$number_of_a ddresses; $i++)
{
//split each line or row

Before you split the line using explode, simply do:

$line = explode("\t", str_replace('"' , '', $addresses[$i]));

I had thought of the str_replce function but couldn't think how to use
it... thank you.

$line = explode("\t",$a ddresses[$i]);

TIA

More info if required

TIA? IMHO this is bad netiquette - if you can't be bothered to take the
time to write out "Thanks in advance" why should we be bothered to help?

Assuming that the reason for using TIA is "can't be bothered to take
the time to write it out", then I agree it could be poor netiquette.
However if there is another reason for it's use then it's not poor
netiquette.

Cheers,

Joe

Cheers and thanks again