PhP question..

berengar

This question was on an exam :

Write a PHP script that takes input as a data file with a list of
names and companies, everyline that begins with "S.L." is a company ,
every other line is a person (2nd and 1st name)

Re display the file with no companies and all the names reversed
eg

Murphy Paul
S.L. Microsoft
S.L. Sony
Henderson Bill
Jameson Harry
S.L. Xerox
Blair Andy

Becomes :


Paul Murphy
Bill Henderson
Harry Jameson
Andy Blair

So I wont bother putting my code in here (its awful as im new to PhP)
but i used the strpos() function to remove all the companies, and then an array
to swap around the 1st and last names ?

Can anyone else post code that would do the above ?

democrates

At this stage you've sorted reading line by line from the file and excluding lines beginning with S.L. so all you need is to reverse the names on remaining lines.

Within your loop:

[PHP]$name = explode(" ",$line); // create an array using space as a delimeter
echo $name[1]." ".$name[0]; //output firstname, space, lastname[/PHP]