Reading Fixed-Width Delimited Data : substr « String « PHP






  1. PHP
  2. String
  3. substr

Reading Fixed-Width Delimited Data

 
<?php
  $flatfile = "data.txt";

  if (file_exists ($flatfile)){

    $rows = file ($flatfile);
    for ($i = 0; $i < count ($rows); $i++){

      $item = substr ($rows[$i],0,20);
      $amount = substr ($rows[$i],20,40);

      echo "Item: " . rtrim ($item) . " has " . rtrim ($amount) . " unit (s) left.<br />";
    }
  } else {
    echo "File does not exist.";
  }

?>








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