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[Fan, Wellington]

Because CSV is more complex than that -- delimiter characters that are
actually data, the escaping of text qualifier characters, etc.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Shaw [mailto:ashaw at iifwp.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 2:12 PM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] fgetcsv alternatives?
> 
> 
> Fan, Wellington wrote:
> 
> >I have a large buffer that I'd like to parse as CSV -- so is there a
> >function similar to fgetcsv() that could operate on a string 
> buffer rather
> >than a filehandle?
> >
> Why not explode()?
> 
> <?
> $lines = explode("\n", $buffer);
> foreach ($lines as $line) {
>     $fields = explode("\t", $line);
> }
> ?>
> 
> -- 
> Allen Shaw
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