Question

I know this might ma a simple question, it must have been answered before but it’s the kind of question you don’t know how to google for.

I’m doing an intranet and I have a big texarea in wich te user pastes a 5columns X 365 rows (an optional first column with the 1 to 365 numbers) from excel and ends up in this:

1   $ 37    $ 74    $ 111   $ 148   $ 185
2   $ 37    $ 74    $ 111   $ 148   $ 185
3   $ 37    $ 74    $ 111   $ 148   $ 185
4   $ 37    $ 74    $ 111   $ 148   $ 185
5   $ 37    $ 74    $ 111   $ 148   $ 185
6   $ 57    $ 114   $ 171   $ 228   $ 285
7   $ 57    $ 114   $ 171   $ 228   $ 285
8   $ 57    $ 114   $ 171   $ 228   $ 285
9   $ 57    $ 114   $ 171   $ 228   $ 285
10  $ 57    $ 114   $ 171   $ 228   $ 285

How can I turn this into a php array so I can then insert it into a mysql table?
I tought about using explode() but I’m not sure if the space between each column will always be the same, maybe there’s a fancier way to do this.

If this is already discussed somewhere else just point me to it.

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

Explode per ligne '\n' and then per column '\t' and just ignore the $

<?php
$str = "    1   $ 37    $ 74    $ 111   $ 148   $ 185
    2   $ 37    $ 74    $ 111   $ 148   $ 185
    3   $ 37    $ 74    $ 111   $ 148   $ 185
    4   $ 37    $ 74    $ 111   $ 148   $ 185
    5   $ 37    $ 74    $ 111   $ 148   $ 185
    6   $ 57    $ 114   $ 171   $ 228   $ 285
    7   $ 57    $ 114   $ 171   $ 228   $ 285
    8   $ 57    $ 114   $ 171   $ 228   $ 285
    9   $ 57    $ 114   $ 171   $ 228   $ 285
    10  $ 57    $ 114   $ 171   $ 228   $ 285";


$arrayCode = array();
$rows = explode("\n", $str);
foreach($rows as $idx => $row)
{
    $row = explode( "\t", $row );

    //to get rid of first item (the number)
    //comment it if you don't need.
    array_shift ( $row );

    foreach( $row as $field )
    {
        //to clean up $ sign
        $field = trim( $field, "$ ");
        $arrayCode[$idx][] = $field;
    }
}
print_r( $arrayCode );
?>