Interpret text file and convert to HTML table

[SJH]

Hi everyone,

I have a text file in the following format:

Text[tab]Text[tab]Text
Text[tab]Text[tab]Text
Text[tab]Text[tab]Text

I want a PHP function that will take this file and convert it into an HTML table. At present, each "Text" field needs to be able to contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, commas, brackets and hyphens.

Does anyone have a regex that would do this?

Many thanks

Sam

[Jake Arkinstall]

Regex? No need.
This is what I'd do:

<?
$fulltext = file_get_contents("text.txt");
$linearray = explode("\n", $fulltext);
foreach($linearray as $line => $text){
    $fullarray[] = explode("\t", $text);
}
echo "<table>";
foreach($fullarray as $key => $value){
echo "<tr>";
foreach($value as $which => $text){
echo "<td>{$text}</td>";
}
echo "</tr>;
}
echo "</table>";
?>

[Jake Arkinstall]

Sorry, forgot an ending double-quote.

<?
$fulltext = file_get_contents("text.txt");
$linearray = explode("\n", $fulltext);
foreach($linearray as $line => $text){
    $fullarray[] = explode("\t", $text);
}
echo "<table>";
foreach($fullarray as $key => $value){
    echo "<tr>";
    foreach($value as $which => $text){
        echo "<td>{$text}</td>";
    }
    echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
?>

[SJH]

Thanks, that works perfectly

Sam