Pat,
You could read the file into an array;
$aryNessus = file("/pathtofile/filename", "r");
Each row of the array then has one line from the file;
Get the record count;
$intNumRecs = count($aryNessus);
Now read through the array and extract the values;
for($i=0;$i<=$intNumRecs;$i++) {
$aryNessusFields = explode("|", $aryNessus[$i]);
$hostname = $aryNessusFields[0];
$protocol = $aryNessusFields[1];
$number = $aryNessusFields[2];
$severity = $aryNessusFields[3];
$description + $aryNessusFields[4];
// Save the data into the database here
}
Regards
Chris
Patrick Brown wrote:
> I want to parse a file with the following syntax.
>
> hostname|protocol|number|severity|description
>
> Each record is on it's own line and have the fields delimited by the pipe
> character |. The file may have thousands of records and I would like to
> bring them into a database for reporting.
>
> Some of you may recognize this a the file format of a Nessus security scan
> file.
>
> What function should I use and what would the syntax be?
>
> Thanks,
> Pat
>
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