Text Parsing To Create Links

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<?php

define("bDEBUG", FALSE);

// Open file handle
$hfile = fopen("./links.txt", "r");

// Set up some variables
$iCnt = 0;
$sOut = NULL;

// Walk through contents of file
while(!feof($hfile))
{
  $iCnt++;
  $sLine = fgets($hfile);

  if(!empty($sLine))
  {
    // Show output for debugging
    if(bDEBUG)
	printf("%d - %s\n", $iCnt, $sLine);

    $aLine = explode(" - ", $sLine);

    // On the fly formatting for URL
    $aLine[2] = str_replace("\n", "", $aLine[2]);
		$aLine[2] = '"'.$aLine[2].'"';

    // Show array for debugging
    if(bDEBUG)
        print_r($aLine);

    $sOut .= sprintf("<a href=%s target=\"blank\">%s</a> - %s\n\n",
		$aLine[2], $aLine[0], $aLine[1]);
  }
}

// Close file pointer
fclose($hfile);

$sOut = str_replace(' "', '"', $sOut);
echo $sOut;

?>