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For this problem, you are to cannibalize any available code and write a script which will do the following.

The PHP Script: displaytable.php

• Read baseball player information from a file
  • Find on the WWW the Blue Jays with the five (5) highest batting averages for the current or most recent year.
  • Place each player's first and last names, at bats and hits in a text file, one player per line, separating the items of information with a vertical bar character, |. Click here for a sample.
  • To learn about different techniques for reading in the data, click here.
• Calculate the batting average (At Bats / Hits) for each player.
• Display the data in an HTML table.

To see how this could work, view the HTML source code of this possible analogous solution.