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Created July 24, 2012 22:28
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Parse CSV into Associative Array
<?php
$lines = explode( "\n", file_get_contents( 'input.csv' ) );
$headers = str_getcsv( array_shift( $lines ) );
$data = array();
foreach ( $lines as $line ) {
$row = array();
foreach ( str_getcsv( $line ) as $key => $field )
$row[ $headers[ $key ] ] = $field;
$row = array_filter( $row );
$data[] = $row;
}
@hboneill
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This is very helpful. Thank you!

@gkalmoukis
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This is very helpful!

@wickywills
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Beautiful

@ypsilon-p
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It is not a good method to load the whole file into memory. If you have a large file, your application will slow down or you will need a lot of RAM. The better way is to read and process the file line by line.

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