Hi Andy, The little snippet you showed from the text file made me think that the data layout for each country is not consistent. For example: For Algeria there is the country name and right underneath goes the info about yellow fever and malaria as opposed to American Samoa where underneath the country name is capital and altitude.. IS this the case? If it is, can you reorganize the data to be consistent and even same number of lines for each country? IT will make you life heck a lot easier to have a pretty consistent data layout to do what you need to do... In addition, can you tell us what OS yo are using? I don't know if PH is the best and/or right choice to do this, but if you are in *NIX shell scripting can be useful. Thanks..
Gurhan -----Original Message----- From: Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] Difficulty on how to extract data out of a text with string functions. Hi there, I want to include some data into my website which covers malaria and yellow feewer related to each country. On the WHO website are all the infos I need. Their webmaster told me that unfortunatelly there is no db behind that and everything gos with html files. But I am free to extract that data. Well, I did create a txt file which looks more or less like that: ALGERIA Yellow fever: A yellow fever vaccination certificate is required from travellers over 1 year of age coming from infected areas. Malaria: Malaria risk is limited. One small focus (P. vivax) has been reported in Ihrir (Illizi Department), but this is isolated and access is difficult. Recommended prophylaxis: none. AMERICAN SAMOA Capital: Pago Pago Altitude: 10 m Yellow fever: A yellow fever vaccination certificate is required from travellers over 1 year of age coming from infected areas. Now I have a table in a MySQL db naming all those countries. The goal is to extract the Yellow fever and Malaria line and put it into a mysql table related to the countries. I saw that PHP has some good functions on text, but do u guys think this could be done??? Doing it by hand could take allllloooong loooooong while. I am open for any idea! Thanx a lot for any help Cheers, Andy -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
