Question

I am using PHP exec() to run a script that outputs a 3 column, 5 row data table. Right now each row is a single value in my array as follows:

1 => "Nancy  Female   32   05/10/2012"
2 => "Drew   Male     32   06/16/2012"
3 => "Websy  Female   32   11/05/2012"
4 => "Namez  Male     32   09/20/2012"

Can I get it to return a nested array for the values in each row?

1 => 
    1 => Nancy
    2 => Female
    3 => 32
    4 => 05/10/2012
2 => 
    1 => Drew
    2 => Male
    3 => 32
    4 => 06/16/2012

I can always use a delimiter, and rearrange the array afterwards, but didn’t if know there some funcationality to exec() that can do this.

Answer 1

No. All exec knows about is lines of output; it has no further knowledge of what is in those lines.