I have a csv, generated with Open Office Spreadsheet, separator is comma, text wrapper is ".
I want just to columns in my spreadsheet, as it is some key-value list, like:
a -> b
aa -> bb
aaa -> bbb
so my spreadsheet has just two columns, each row containing a key-value pair, each key in a cell, each value in a cell. But when I use
if ($_FILES ['userfile'] ['error'] == UPLOAD_ERR_OK &&
is_uploaded_file ( $_FILES ['userfile'] ['tmp_name'] )) {
$csvfile = file_get_contents ( $_FILES ['userfile'] ['tmp_name'] );
}
$dict = str_getcsv($csvfile);
And var_dump $dict afterwards, i get
array(4) { [0]=> string(1) "a" [1]=> string(6) "b "aa"" [2]=>
string(8) "bb "aaa"" [3]=> string(3) "bbb" }
See index 1, where the first value "b" and the seconde key "aa" are stored in one index.
OpenOffice places no comma behind the values, aka before a new row. How do I avoid that two strings end up in one index? Can I somehow tell str_getcsv that when two " follow each other, it's also a separator? Or can I add a third column always containing # and say "if it contains #, its a line break? (I tried, and couldn't manage..) Or is there even a function, that expects key, value, linebreak in csv?
Whats the correct way to do this? I'm sure people done this so often, but I don't know how to google it.
Thanks!
