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Parsing fixed-width records with unpack()

<?php $fp = fopen('data.txt','r') or die ("can't open file"); while ($s = fgets($fp,1024)) {     $fields = unpack('A25title/A14author/A4publication_year',$s);     process_fields($fields); } fclose($fp) or die("can't close file"); ?>