Question

I have a csv file which has a word for each row like this

word1
word2
word3

And have the following code to read the data:

$arr = array();
$fh = fopen('path/to/file', 'r');
while (($rows = fgetcsv($fh)) !== false) {
 print_r($rows);
 if (!in_array($rows[0], $arr))
  $arr[] = "'".trim($rows[0])."'";
}
fclose($fh);
print_r($arr);

The problem is im getting empty strings/null for $rows[0] and im quite sure the data is there.

Array ( [0] => )
Array ( [0] => )
Array ( [0] => )

Array ( [0] => '' [1] => '' [2] => '' [3] => '' )

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You’re trying to read the words into an array? Replace all that with just:

$arr = file('/path/to/file');
print_r($arr);