How to explode array from file?

[deko]

contents of myfile.txt = 5035|9638742|11 938 // (one line of text)

$myfile = "/home/path/public_html/myfile.txt";
$totals = file($myfile);
$var = explode("|", $totals[0]);
$i = number_format($ var[0]);
$k = number_format($ var[1]);

For some reason this is acting funny. I am getting a null value for $k for some
reason...

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

[Kim André Akerø]

Re: How to explode array from file?

deko wrote:

contents of myfile.txt = 5035|9638742|11 938 // (one line of text)
>
$myfile = "/home/path/public_html/myfile.txt";
$totals = file($myfile);
$var = explode("|", $totals[0]);
$i = number_format($ var[0]);
$k = number_format($ var[1]);
>
For some reason this is acting funny. I am getting a null value for
$k for some reason...
>
Is there a better way to do this?
>
Thanks in advance.

The number_format() function accepts the given number as a float, but
you're passing a string as the number. What happens if you rather do
the last 2 lines like this?

$i = number_format(f loatval($var[0]));
$k = number_format(f loatval($var[1]));

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[deko]

Re: How to explode array from file?

The number_format() function accepts the given number as a float, but

you're passing a string as the number. What happens if you rather do
the last 2 lines like this?
>
$i = number_format(f loatval($var[0]));
$k = number_format(f loatval($var[1]));

That sounds like a good idea and I will implement your suggestion. Thanks.

But I think the problem I was having was caused by contention for that file.
Apparently, another process had a lock on it and file($myfile) was not returning
anything. So I tried this:

$timeout = 0;
$gotlock = false;
$fp = fopen($data_fil e, "r");

while ($timeout < 10 && $gotlock === false)
{
if (flock($fp, LOCK_EX))
{
$mydata = fread($fp, filesize($data_ file));
flock($fp, LOCK_UN);
$gotlock = true;
}
else
{
usleep(100000);
}
$timeout++;
}

if ($gotlock)
{
[process data]
}

seems to be working....