how could i make words (seperated by a space) in a text file on a single line part of an array?

i mean as in if the text file contains the lines:
"
one two three four
five six seven
"

how could i make
"one, two, three, four" the array $line1 (so $line1[0] = "one" and $line1[1] = "two" etc)
and
"five, six, seven" the array $line2
and so on.

thanks alot.

You can either do this so you end up with lots of arrays called line1 line2 etc. or you could have one array, (call it thefile[] )with two dimensions. In your above example thefile[1][0] = "one" thefile[1][1] = "two" and thefile[2][0] = "five"

would that be more useful, or do you want named arrays like line1 line2 line3 etc?

Both are possible,

the way you suggest sounds like it'd be best, how could that be set up?

thanks

Try this.

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$bigarray=new array();

$lines=file('file.txt');
$d1=0;
foreach($lines as $line) {
   $bigarray[$d1]=new array();
   $words=explode(' ',$line);
   $d2=0;
   foreach($words as $word) {
      $bigarray[$d1][$d2]=$word;
      $d2++;
   }
   $d1++
} 


cool thats excellent. You reckon u could tell me how it works? I like to understand everything i use so i know how to use it next time

Thanks alot

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$lines=file('file.txt'); 


This loads the file into $lines, one line of text per item in the array. (info here)

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foreach($lines as $line) { 


For each iteration of this loop, the next line is loaded into $line
$d1 is for keeping track of $bigarray's subscripts.

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$bigarray[$d1]=new array(); 


Makes $bigarray[$d1] an array itself, so that it can hold all the words.

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$words=explode(' ',$line); 


Splits up the current line into the $words array (using a space as the delimeter).

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foreach($words as $word) { 


For each iteration of this loop, the next word is loaded into $word
$d2 is for keeping track of $bigarray[$d1]'s subscripts.

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$bigarray[$d1][$d2]=$word; 


Put each word in the appropriate part of $bigarray.

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$d2++; 


Increment $d2 counter ready for the next word.

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$d1++ 


Increment $d1 counter ready for the next line.