Reading a CSV from TXT file

I’ve got a text file with contents such as this:

A, B, C
D, E, F
G, H, I

I’m trying to figure out a way to read each line into a set of three variables that I can then manipulate.

I found something like this:

$splitcontents = explode($delimiter, $contents);

But this is reading the file like so: A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I

When I need to be able to read it as individual rows of three variables.

As a background - this information is scraped from another website and fed into a txt file that is updated once a day. I did it this way to speed up page loads for my visitors.

Can anyone help?

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

Either use fgetcsv or load the file with file() function which will load it in array (each line will be one array) element, then [URL=“http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php”]go through the array and [URL=“http://php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php”]explode() each item to get CSV values.

I did find a bug within this function, that I didn’t spend too much time researching… But I believe depending on the format of the file, possibly even just the extension, fgetcsv will force load the entire file into memory before spooling.

Not a huge deal except for when dealing with 3GB files like I usually am.

I’m curious how this is helping performance?