how to read string from multiple rows in a textfile?

[boss1]

i have textfile containing multiple rows.Each row containing same type of strings.now my problem is i can read only one row frequently but i can't read multiple rows.

so how can i solve this problem Is there anybody expart to help me?

Text to be read is:

03/31/02 04:21PM   136 11 9564499-                       00:00'54            TR 
 
 03/31/02 04:22PM   202 10 8916116                        00:00'05               
 
 03/31/02 04:23PM   125 08 108                            00:00'32               
 

 03/31/02 04:23PM   142 06 <I>                       0'00 00:00'31            TR 
 
 03/31/02 07:51AM       13 <I>                       0'05                     NA 

 03/31/02 04:22PM   202 10 9338340                        00:00'00

my
trial code is:[code=php]
<?php


$file = fopen("rawdata. txt","r");

while(! feof($file))
{
//echo fgets($file). "<br />";
$first=trim($fi rst.fgets($file ));
//echo $first;
}
$first1= substr($first,0 ,8);
echo $first1." ";
//mysql_query("in sert into test(name) values($first1) ");
//echo $first1;
/*$file1 = fopen("raw_da
{ta_31_03.txt", "rb");
while(! feof($file1))
//echo fgets($file). "<br />";
*/
//$second=trim($s econd.fgets($fi le1));


$second1= substr($first,9 ,7);
echo $second1 ." ";


$third= substr($first,1 7,5);
echo $third ." ";

$fourth= substr($first,2 3,2);
echo $fourth ." ";

$fifth= substr($first,2 5,11);
echo $fifth ." ";
$sixth= substr($first,5 0,15);
echo $sixth ." ";
$seventh= substr($first,7 7,2);
echo $seventh ." ";


fclose($file);

?>[/code]

[pbmods]

Heya, Boss.

This looks like a job for Regular Expressions!.