Question

I am generating a CSV file but the people who are processing these file tells me it needs to be in ASCII format?? How do I go about to make that?

This is what I have to generate the file:

$filename = '/logs/'.date('Ymd').'.txt';
$myfile = fopen($filename,'a');
fwrite($myfile, $data);
fclose($myfile);

This file generates fine and opens fine…everything is ok to the naked eye but they said it needs to be in ascii format…

Output of file:

"","932-4","Mike","Tanner","","1234 Testing Lane","","Los Angeles","CA","90066","","[phone]","","","","SALE","","","V","4111111111111111","01/14","AXLW","","ZENC","","","REG","","511.80","","07/21/11","932-359","D1234","4","","1","","","","","","","Tanner","Mike","","1234 Testing Lane","","CA","Los Angeles","90066","","CC","","","","Y","100.00","","100.00","","","","","","","","Y","11.8","[e-mail]","359","001","001","[phone]","[phone]","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","222","","","","","","","","","","","","","",

Anyone?

Thanks…

Answer 1

I’m going to play Carnac the Magnificent and say that you’re just using a line-feed (ascii 10, aka \n) to terminate each line. I’ll bet they want carriage-return plus line-feed (ascii 13,10). Just a wild guess. 🙂