I have just resd the chapter on file operations, hoping to find some magic way of reading fields from a .csv file into an array.

Unless I missed something, the best I can do is read then entire line up to the LF character. Then I'm left to parse the line, looking for commas and quotes, separating it into fields the old-fashioned way.

Is there some magic I missed that would make this job easier?

Thanks!

The split function could break lines from a csv file at the commas
see: http://uk2.php.net/split

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