I'm not able to read a tabulator seperarated csv file (and yes, i know its csv and no tsv and the c is for tabulator...) with php and seperate it right. When i give out my imported Data with echo or readfile all the tabulators are replaced by a space and i can't use space as a sperator.
Actually i'm a bit confused that this problem is not very common when i use Google, so maybe i'm the problem...
The Problem exists with XAMPP v3.2.3 and PHP Version 7.3.5
$tempFile = fopen($tempFilePath, "r");
$uploadData = fread($tempFile, filesize($tempFilePath));
fclose($tempFile);
echo $uploadData;
$uploadData = str_replace('"','',$uploadData);
$uploadData = str_replace('
','
',$uploadData);
$uploadData = str_replace('','
',$uploadData);
$uploadData = str_replace(';',',',$uploadData);
$uploadData = str_replace('\t',',',$uploadData); //Here i'm trying to replace the tabulator with a colon to work with it afterwards
When reading a CSV file in PHP, it is best to use the fgetcsv function. With it you can specify the deliminator of the file. The function will output a row of the file. Your deliminator should be "\t"
.
You should use fgetcsv function which already has functionality to read tsv.
Like this:
$uploadData = [];
if (($handle = fopen("test.csv", "r")) !== false) {
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 0, "\t")) !== false) {
$uploadData[] = $data;
}
fclose($handle);
}
If you want to convert tsv to csv you can use inverse function fputcsv:
$fh = fopen('file.csv');
foreach ($uploadData as $datum) {
fputcsv($fh, $datum);
}
fclose($fh);
If you want automatically detect csv delimiter maybe this article can help you.