Yea, that is what I'm going to do for a back up. After mucking with this for a couple of days, I've about had it.
Jeff Harris wrote: > On Jul 1, 2003, "Chris" claimed that: > > |I'm trying to create an form where the user can upload a datafile to the > |server. The datafile will be txt or csv and contain multiple records. I > |would like the user to supply the field delimiter like (,) comma , (\t) > |tab or something else. The data records are then parsed using fgetcsv. > | > |The problem I'm having is trying to recover the tab character from the > |form post. If I print out what is received from my form I see the > |following \\t. I realize that the addition of the extra slash is > |expected, but what I don't know how to do is prepair this varable to use > |it in my fgetcsv argument. > | > |I've tried using stripslash but nothing seems to work for me. > | > |Strangely, if is set a variable in my processing script like: > | > |$field_terminater = "\t"; > | > |Then supply this to: $newRecord = fgetcsv($f, $size,$field_terminater) > |everything works fine. If I use the variable passed from my form the > |records are not getting parsed. > | > |Any suggestions would be appreciated. > |Chris > | > [Not PHP] > Hard code the choices using radio buttons or a select on the form. There > shouldn't be too many commonly used delimiters, and those that use > uncommon delimiters will have to adjust. > [/Not PHP] > > Then, use the value submitted to choose the delimiter in the php script. > > Jeff > -- > Registered Linux user #304026. > "lynx -source http://jharris.rallycentral.us/jharris.asc | gpg --import" > Key fingerprint = 52FC 20BD 025A 8C13 5FC6 68C6 9CF9 46C2 B089 0FED > Responses to this message should conform to RFC 1855. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
