I am trying to gather informatin from a tab separated text file and generate a graph based on criteria from user. I will only pull information from the 1st, 4th & 8th columns. The first row contains column headers. How do I parse the data from the text file into an array? I want to use GD Graph to plot a scatter graph. The text file will be something like this: 
name1  name2  name3  name4  name5  name6  name7 name8 name9
data   data   data   data   data   data   data  data  data
data   data   data   data   data   data   data  data  data
Any advice?

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