editing notepad text file through php. need to remove lines.

Hi Friends,

I really need your help. I have a huge notepad file. And i need to remove few things from the notepad.

Every line in notepad file is like this

Game|is|On|Off|One|World
World|Internet|Cafe|Computer|Windows

So this is the sample.

What i want is, that to code a php script which can just do this


count the character | and as soon as it reaches the 5th "|" it should remove all the other parts of the line.

So if the line before is like

Game|Cricket|Football|Soccer|Mother|Father|Game|Daddy|Computer

After running the script

The line will be
Game|Cricket|Football|Soccer|Mother

I need a loop so that all the lines in the text files are edited this way. Please help me if you can. I know it will take a bit time but it is really for a good cause. It is really going to help me save days of time and complete my assignment report. Please help.

Thanks

 

Some lines dont have more words so only if it goes to 5th, it should happen. If it has less then next line.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME

 

This is very easy to complete in PHP all you need to do is explode all data into an array the loop through the results and do a str_replace to take out | when the loop has increased by 5.

Google: php explode and str_replace

Thanks

 

not sure if this is what you were really asking for but..

<?
$filename = "files/filename.txt";
$filename_save_as = "files/filename_saved.txt";
$words_per_line = 5;
/* ==================================================== */
$file_pointer = fopen($filename, "rb");
if($file_pointer!=false) {
    while(!feof($file_pointer)) {
        $data = fgets($file_pointer);
        $explode = explode("|", $data);
        if(count($explode) > $words_per_line) { 
            for ($i = 0; $i < $words_per_line; $i++) {
                $output .= str_replace("\n", "", $explode[$i]);
                if($i != $words_per_line-1) { $output .= "|"; }
            }
            $output .= "\n";
        }else{
            $output .= str_replace("\n", "", $data)."\n";
        }
    }
}
$file_save = fopen($filename_save_as, 'w');
fwrite($file_save, $output);
fclose($file_save);
echo "file complete, saved as ".$filename_save_as;
/* ==================================================== */
?>

PHP:

upload that somewhere and create a directory called "files", make sure you chmod that directory 0777

 

Thanks, i havent tried it yet but you are the one who gave me the code instead of suggesting me to search in google etc. If i was a programmer, i would have searched the net. I needed the code so i could copy paste. And you did that. Thanks. I will try it.

 

no problem, good luck