Un-zipping file problem

[Brian]

Hi all

Below is a bit of code that opens up and reads a
zip file.

I'm having trouble working out how to read in line
by line. The file I am unzipping is a CSV file and I
need to return each line so I can work on them

Any help would be great

Brian

$zip = zip_open("$file path"); // << full path of the file
if ($zip) {
while ($zip_entry = zip_read($zip)) {
if (zip_entry_open ($zip, $zip_entry, "r")) {
$buf = zip_entry_read( $zip_entry, zip_entry_files ize($zip_entry) );
print "$buf<br>\n "; // << what to return each line so i can work
on it
zip_entry_close ($zip_entry);
}
echo "<br>\n";
}
zip_close($zip) ;
}

[Benjamin Esham]

Re: Un-zipping file problem

Brian wrote:

Below is a bit of code that opens up and reads a zip file.
>
I'm having trouble working out how to read in line by line. The file I am
unzipping is a CSV file and I need to return each line so I can work on
them
>
$buf = zip_entry_read( $zip_entry, zip_entry_files ize($zip_entry) );
>
print "$buf<br>\n "; // << what to return each line so i can work on it

I'm not really familiar with the zip functions, but if $buf is the contents
of your file, you can use

$lines = preg_split("/[\r\n]+/", $buf);

to populate $lines with the lines of your file.

If $buf is just a temporary buffer, you could do something like

$contents .= $buf;

during each iteration of the loop, and the use preg_split() with $contents
after the loop has completed.

HTH,
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