Undefined Offset

[ADVAD]

Hi
My following php code keeps giving me Undefined Offset errors:
The code is:

<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Tile </th> <th> Email</th> <th> Publication No. </th> <th> Submitted By: First Name </th> <th> Submitted By: Last Name </th> <th> File Name </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<?php
if(!($lines=file('publication.txt')))
{echo 'Error:Unable to open file!</body> </html>';exit;}
foreach($lines as $theline)
/*Line 134
*/
{list($title, $author, $pubno, $firstname, $lastname, $newname) = split '\|',$theline);
echo"
<tr>
<td>$title</td> <td>$author</td> <td>$pubno</td> <td>$firstname</td> <td>$lastname</td> <td>$newname</td </tr>";}?>
</table>

I keep getting the following errors:
Notice: Undefined offset: 5 to Undefined offset:1 on line 134

[kireol]

= split ('\|',$theline);

[ADVAD]

i must admit it is strange, but that missing bracket is still in the code- and it is still not working............

[kireol]

ya, that was just the first problem that I saw.

Undefined offset usually refers to the integer key of a numeric array.

without having a sample file to open and run it on, hard for me to determine where. got a small sample set for publication.txt?

[nav33n]

First of all, those are notices and not errors. Notices are those which you can totally ignore. If you don't initialize the variables and use it, you will get a 'notice'. If you want to be a good programmer, initialize every variable you use to its respective default value.
"" for a string variable, 0 for an integer variable and so on.
If you are on a local system and have access to php.ini, you can avoid notices by changing error_reporting value.
Set it to error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE to get all errors except notices.

[cwarn23]

Try making this your code:

/*Line 134
*/
{ echo '<tr>'
foreach (explode('|',$theline) AS $val) {
  echo '<td>'.$val.'</td> ';
  }
echo '</tr>'; } ?>
</table>

[ADVAD]

Hi Thanks all, I know the problem now as the variables were not declared and it was just a notice rather than an error...but thanks all...it it works...