I need help splitting data from a .txt file into two pieces.

[123z]

Hi, I'm new to the community.

I'd like some help on splitting data from a .txt file into two pieces.

This is what I have so far.

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$location = '/file.txt';
$data = file($location);
$line = trim($data[array_rand($data)]);
list($a, $b) = preg_split("+", $line, 2);
echo $a,$b;

In the text file it looks like this

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Peter+1200 Griffin Avenue
Luis+1553 Atlantic Blvd
Zac+4500 Island Blvd
and so on...

The script is suppose to grab a random line and split that line into two variables, a and b, so then $a and $b can be used on that page in different areas..

So far it seems that preg_split isn't grabbing the information from the text file but looking in the same page (index.php)
the error I'm getting..

Warning:  preg_split() [function.preg-split]: No ending delimiter '+' found in /public_html/index.php on line 44

If you could help a newbie out it would be much appreciated! 
~ 123z

[Smokey PHP]

Hi there,

Try the following code:

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<?php
$filename = "./info.txt";
$file = file($filename);
foreach($file as $data)
{
    $info = explode("+",$data);
    echo "Name = ".$info[0];
    echo "<br />";
    echo "Address = ".$info[1];
    echo "<hr />";
}
?>


Obviously just change the filename to the location and filename that you are using. Let me know how it goes!