Help me parse this file with PHP

Question

Fri Nov 27 10:00:01 EST 2009         974        12506
Fri Nov 27 11:00:01 EST 2009         988        12655
Fri Nov 27 12:00:01 EST 2009        1005        12886
Fri Nov 27 1         


        

Answer 1

It appears to be fixed column width. You're going to need to either:

• Use substr() and extract each column, then trim whitespace
• Use preg_split() and look for two or more spaces in a row '/\s+/'
• Other

Explode will likely return a bunch of empty elements, since it only matches a single character / one space.