Re: [PHP] Very interesting and challenging question

2001-11-28 Thread Chris Hobbs
A fellow wannabe Winston Cup driver :) I'm thinking about setting a switch on $mode, which will change what it does based on the value of $mode. Something like this: $mode = 1; // 1 for stripping text, 2 for adding driver results, 3 for adding race results $file = file('/path/to/filename'); f

RE: [PHP] Very interesting and challenging question

2001-11-28 Thread Chris Bailey
You could read the file in with file(), which will give you each line as an array. Then, depending on how those strings are separated (are they by tabs, or is it just whitespace?), use strtok() to tokenize each line. If they are by space, not tab, but you know the column width, then you can just

Re: [PHP] Very interesting and challenging question

2001-11-28 Thread Conor McTernan
I had something like this to do a couple of months back, unfortunately, my code was deleted by someone "smart" in my office. But i can pretty much remember the algorithim behind it. What I done was read in my file into a buffer, then use the explode function, i think, or something like it, bas