reading a .txt file

[habib]

Hi ALL!

I have a text file (cities.txt) which contains hundreds of cities. Is there anyway of being able to read the file and store the text in a variable?

Any working examples that anyone can point out would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
HR

[Ökii]

assuming you want an array variable, you would open the file and and either read the lot into a var and explode that or format your reading trigger to compile the array while reading.
Personally I like fgetcsv() for reading from files (only really useful for character-seperated lists with linebreaks tho).

$my_file = '../textfiles/cities.txt';
$rd = fopen($my_file,"r");
while (!feof ($rd)) {
$my_city[] = fgets($rd, 4096);
}
fclose($rd);

that would take each line of the file and attribute it to an indexed array $my_city - eg
$my_city[0] = "Aberdeen";
$my_city[1] = "London";
assuming each city is on a different line in the text file.

sort($my_city); would alphabetically reorganise the output.

If your txt file syntax is different and you get problems trying to run a code, just explain your syntax and ask further.