Parsing a local file

I am trying to build script that will parse a file on the user's computer.
There are 2 things that I am not quite sure about.

1) How to read a file on the user's computer, and not on the server.

2) How to parse a line similar to the one below:

"7/29/2003" , "Report Title" , "Page" , "Agent Name" , "5200" , "30" ,
"3:30" , "" , "" , ""

Now, in this line, there are items that I would like to discard. As well,
there are items between the "s that I would like the parse further. Below
is how I would like it parsed

"$month/$day/$year" , "DISCARD" , "DISCARD" , "DISCARD" , "$agentid" ,
"$calls_taken" , "$avg_call_time" , "DISCARD" , "DISCARD" , "DISCARD"


Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jason

Also, it's a remote file you are trying to parse, not a local...
local=server, remote=user... Like John linked, you must upload it... Can't
do it other ways...

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"Jason D. Williard" <jason@jasondubya.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> I am trying to build script that will parse a file on the user's computer.
> There are 2 things that I am not quite sure about.
>
> 1) How to read a file on the user's computer, and not on the server.
>
> 2) How to parse a line similar to the one below:
>
> "7/29/2003" , "Report Title" , "Page" , "Agent Name" , "5200" , "30" ,
> "3:30" , "" , "" , ""
>
> Now, in this line, there are items that I would like to discard. As well,
> there are items between the "s that I would like the parse further. Below
> is how I would like it parsed
>
> "$month/$day/$year" , "DISCARD" , "DISCARD" , "DISCARD" , "$agentid" ,
> "$calls_taken" , "$avg_call_time" , "DISCARD" , "DISCARD" , "DISCARD"
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
>
>
>
>
>

* Thus wrote DvDmanDT (dvdmandt@telia.com):
> Also, it's a remote file you are trying to parse, not a local...
> local=server, remote=user... Like John linked, you must upload it... Can't
> do it other ways...

I suppose in this case with local and remote defined this way it
should be download instead of upload :)

Curt
--
"I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."

lol, yeah, guess so... Although, when you talk about these things, do you
say you must download a file from the client? Or that you must open the
remote logfile in your script? Damn, this is getting screwy...

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"Curt Zirzow" <curt@zirzow.dyndns.org> skrev i meddelandet
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> * Thus wrote DvDmanDT (dvdmandt@telia.com):
> > Also, it's a remote file you are trying to parse, not a local...
> > local=server, remote=user... Like John linked, you must upload it...
Can't
> > do it other ways...
>
> I suppose in this case with local and remote defined this way it
> should be download instead of upload :)
>
> Curt
> --
> "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."