/Y.T.

<?php

    function tabs_to_table($input) {
       //define replacement constants
       define('TAB_REPLACEMENT', "");
       define('NEWLINE_REPLACEMENT', "\n");
       define('ROW_BEGIN', "");
       define('TABLE_BEGIN', "\n");
       define('TABLE_END', "\n");

       //replace all tabs with end-cell, begin-cell
       $input = preg_replace  ("/\t/"  , TAB_REPLACEMENT  , $input);
       //split the list on linebreaks
       $rows = preg_split  ("/\r\n/"  , $input);

       //replace all linebreaks with end-row
       $output = "";
       foreach ($rows as $index => $row) {
           if (strlen($row) > 0) {
               $output .= ROW_BEGIN . $row . NEWLINE_REPLACEMENT;
           }
       }

       //build table
       $input = TABLE_BEGIN . $output . TABLE_END;

       return $input;
    }

    // Get Tab delimited text from file
    $filename = "Tab_delimited_file.txt";
    $handle = fopen($filename, "r");
    $contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
    fclose($handle);

    // Start building the HTML file
    echo "\n";
    echo "Tab delimited Text to HTML Table\n";
    echo "\n";
    print(tabs_to_table($contents));
    echo "\n";
    echo "\n";
?>

And yes, I should have also said to invoke the function with

tabs_to_table($input);

I’ll correct my comment as well. Thank you very much for the corrections.

I’m curious about this piece of code:

$input = preg_replace  (’/\t/’  , TAB_REPLACEMENT  , $inputlist);

$inputlist hasn’t been initialized anywhere, how does this work?

Also, you mentioned using “function tabs_to_table($input);” to invoke the function. Did you really mean “tabs_to_table($input);”?

/Y.T.

Thanks for writing in. Always nice to have contributions and enhancements!

<?php

    function tabs_to_table($input) {
       //define replacement constants
       define("TAB_REPLACEMENT", "");
       define("NEWLINE_REPLACEMENT", "");
       define("TABLE_BEGIN", '');
       define("TABLE_END", "");

       //replace all tabs with end-cell, begin-cell
       $input = preg_replace  ('/\t/'  , TAB_REPLACEMENT  , $input);
       //split the list on linebreaks
       $rows = preg_split  ("/\r\n/"  , $input);

       //replace all linebreaks with end-row, begin-row (with or without altRow class)
       $output = "";
       foreach ($rows as $index => $row) {
           $output .= $row . sprintf(NEWLINE_REPLACEMENT, ($index%2?"":' class="alt"'));
       }

       //build table
       $input = TABLE_BEGIN . $output . TABLE_END;

       return $input;
    }

    // Get Tab delimted text from file
    $filename = "Tab_delimited_file.txt";
    $handle = fopen($filename, "r");
    $contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
    fclose($handle);

    // Start building the HTML file
    echo "\n";
    echo "DEK Document Number Register\n";
    echo "\n";
    print(tabs_to_table($contents));
    echo "\n";
    echo "\n";
?>

It’s not hard to see that the code always adds a blank row at the end.

function tabs_to_table($input);*
tabs_to_table($input);

Of course, input would have to be read in using php’s fread and such.

* correction suggested by Y.T. Lim – thanks!

Is the script above a function that I can call? Not for sure how to use it.
Thanks