read column of txt file into variable

[Ortix]

This is a continuation of my previous post. I would like to be able to read the second column of a tab delimited txt file into a variable as a string.

 

let's say i have:

 

somegarbage_here     readthisinto$file

I'm looking for this but all tuts seem to be about importing it to arrays and what not. I just want to import the second column. There is always one line.

[Ortix]

i don't see the edit button so:

 

i manged to get this done with the explode() function. However what if i have this:

 

somestuff_here        a file name which has spaces in it

[litebearer]

try this...

<?PHP
$lines = file("tabdel.txt");
$new_array = explode("\t", $lines[0]);
$my_var = $new_array[1];
?>