I am trying to collect information from a tab separated text file and generate a graph based on criteria from user. I will only collect information from the 1st, 4th & 8th columns. The first row contains column headers. How do I parse the data from the text file into a 2 dimensional array? I want to use GD Graph to plot a scatter graph. The text file looks something like this: 
name1  name2  name3  name4  name5  name6  name7 name8 name9
data1  data2  data3  data4  data5  data6  data7 data8 data9
data1  data2  data3  data4  data5  data6  data7 data8 data9


I want to create an array that will look like this:

data1 data4 data8
data1 data4 data8
This will allow me to plot (x,y) scatter graphs based on user's criteria. For example: (data1,data3) or (data1,data8)

In reply to Two dimension array from text file by ITmajor

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