delimited text file

/* $a = file_get_contents( "./directory.php_txt" );

$a = str_replace( array( "\n" , "^|" ) , array( "[NEW*LINE]" , "[tAbul*Ator]" ) , $a );

print "<table border=\"1\">";
foreach( explode( "[NEW*LINE]" , $a ) AS $lines ) {
    print "<tr>";
    foreach( explode( "[tAbul*Ator]" , $lines ) AS $li ) {
        print "<td>";
        print $li ;
        print "</td>";
    }

    print "</tr>";
}
print "</table>"; */

?>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> Example 6 </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY><?

// the following statement opens the files called output.txt
// and reads each line of the file into an array called $readfile

// Each line will be accessed by it's position in the array
// $readfile[0] would be the first line because the array begins at 0
// rather than 1

$readfile = file("./directory.php_txt");

// Create a loop that will read all elements of the array and print out
// each field of the tab-delimited text file

for ($k=0; $k<=count($readfile)-1; $k++) {
    $fields = explode("^|",$readfile[$k]);
    echo "<br>".$fields[1];
}
?>

</BODY>
</HTML>