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phpfilesplitsections
Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 319

How to split a file up in sections in php?

My script stores serialized arrays in text files, but I would like to be able to split the files up in sections and store data within those sections. I have though about using text as separation, and then use substring to get data between two substrings in the file, but is there a better way (faster, easier, more reliable etc...)?

Like this:

Data set 1
-------------
Data set 2
------------
Data set 3

The only problem is that one of the data sets(serialized arrays) might contain the text used as splitpoints...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 117

Answers (1)

user188654
user188654

Reputation:

How about storing those in JSON format? You could have a top level object representing an array of data sets or simply a list of name/value pairs like in the example bellow. Advantage of such approach would be that you have a bunch of parsers which can be used for reading/writing JSON.

Example:

{
    "data_set_1" : "serialized array data for data set 1",
    "data_set_2" : "serialized array data for data set 2",
    "data_set_3" : "serialized array data for data set 3"
}

Upvotes: 3

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