Filter a csv file by a word or text using php

Question

I have another csv file where I am trying to do a simple word filter. For example, my text.csv file looks something like this:

name, age, hobbies
Tom, 8, \"         


        

Answer 1

It's probably worth noting here that PHP has CSV handling libraries.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php

This returns the next line of the CSV as an array e.g.

// csv file contains "col1,col2,col3"
// array = {'col1', 'col2', 'col3'}
$array = fgetcsv($csv);

Then you can simply use in_array() or a test on $array[column_number] to filter.

I'm not sure if using a regular expression on the line string vs. using array search functions would be faster though, so it's probably worth testing.