Looks like the first question was answered correctly, for the second one
look at the ltrim and rtrim functions.
$var = "";
$var = rtrim($var);
echo ":$var:";
output is
::
Gary Every
Sr. UNIX Administrator
Ingram Entertainment
(615) 287-4876
"Pay It Forward"
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ht
$data = file('c:\file.txt');
for($counter = 0; $counter < count($data); $counter++)
$data[$counter] = explode("\t",$data[$counter]);
Poof. For:
bob ninajim joe
You will get:
$data[0][0] = 'bob';
$data[0][1] = 'nina';
$data[0][2] = 'jim';
$data[0][3] = 'joe';
Nice and easy