Question

A csv file contains a ‘\’ character in one of its record for which i am not able to get the exact number of key value pair in the array.

I am using PHP fgetcsv function as follows-

 while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
   ....
 }

I have also tried escaping the characters as follows.

 while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",",'"',"\\")) !== FALSE) {
    ....
 }

But it did not work.What might be the possible solution?

Answer 1

$handle = @fopen($filename, "r");
if ($handle) {
    while (($buffer = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) {
        $buffer = preg_replace('/(\\\",)/','\\ ",',$buffer);
        $buffer = preg_replace('/(\\\"("?),)/',' ',$buffer);
        $data[] = str_getcsv($buffer);
    }
    if (!feof($handle)) {
        echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n";
    }
    fclose($handle);
}