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    <p>I'm looking to create a simple text file full of question and single answers. The basic layout idea is :</p> <pre><code>[Q] Question 1 [A] Answer 1 [-] [Q] Question 2 [A] Answer 2 [-] </code></pre> <p>After each answer is a separater [-] to indicate that Q/A combination is complete. The answer could run over multiple lines and/or include some basic HTML. </p> <p>Eg:</p> <pre><code>[Q] What is PHP ? [A] &lt;b&gt;PHP&lt;/b&gt; is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language.&lt;br/&gt;PHP is now installed on more than 244 million websites and 2.1 million web servers.&lt;a href='#'&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, the reference implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group [-] [Q] Question 2 [A] Answer 2 [-] </code></pre> <p>The text file will be written by hand and stored on a local server. So the layout can be changed if needed. But I do want to be able to use some HTML in the formatting.</p> <p>What I want to try an do is read this file into a php page and loop through each Q / A pair and present them on screen.</p> <p>The Question and Answer will be outputted similar to :</p> <pre><code>&lt;a href="#" class="question"&gt;QUESTION&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="answer"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;[Q] QUESTION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt; [A]ANSWER &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>Can someone point me in the right direction for reading the pairs and then outputting them.</p> <p>Thanks :)</p> <p>note: the example answer to Q1 is taken from Wikipedia ;)</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> This is what I've got so far: Questions:</p> <pre><code>[Q] Question 1 [A] Answer 1 [-] [Q] Question 2 [A] Answer 2 [-] [Q] Question 3 [A] Answer 3 [-] [Q] Question 4 [A] &lt;b&gt;PHP&lt;/b&gt; is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language.&lt;br/&gt;PHP is now installed on more than 244 million websites and 2.1 million web servers.&lt;a href='#'&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, the reference implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group [-] [Q] Question 5 [A] Answer 5 [-] [Q] Question 6 [A] Answer 6 [-] </code></pre> <p>Script:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $handle = fopen("questions.txt","r"); if ($handle) { while (($line = fgets($handle)) !== false) { if (substr($line,0,3)==="[Q]") { echo "&lt;a href='#' class='question'&gt;$line&lt;/a&gt;"; $question = $line; } if (substr($line,0,3)==="[A]") { echo "&lt;div class='answer'&gt;"; echo "&lt;strong&gt;$question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;"; echo "$line&lt;/div&gt;"; } if (substr($line,0,3)==="[-]") { echo "&lt;br/&gt;"; continue; } } } else { echo "Unable to open file"; } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>This works but it requires each question to be a single line. Ideally I'd like to ensure they are matching Q/A Pairs and the answer can be split over multiple lines.</p>
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    2. COSome ideas: use a semantic structure, like HTML dd lists, or a json structure, or a PHP ini file, then use a built-in method to do the parsing. Otherwise, you end up writing your own parser -- why reinvent the wheel?
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