Question

I have a text file that looks like:

Line one
Line two
Line three

I would like to convert it to:

return array(
  'Line one',
  'Line two',
  'Line three'
);

And save it as a new file. I don’t want to perform the same explode/preg_split over and over, that really doesn’t make sense. I simply want to create a static file from the original file, and update it when I update the original file.

How would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

Use the file function to read in the file:

$array = file('file1.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);

And to output it, use the file_put_contents and implode:

file_put_contents('file2.txt', implode("\n", $array));