At 17:24 24.02.2003, Anthony spoke out and said:
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>I need to read a text file by line, if I open the file and use fgets() then
>it doesn't pick up the EOL corretly. So I was planning on reading the whole
>file in with fread() and then breaking it up by EOL characters. My question
>is, how do I do it? What character do I search for in the string? Anyone
>have a simple example on how to do this? Thanks.
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A "line" is usually terminated by either <LF> (Unix-Style) or <CR><LF> (Win
style). I heard that some macies do it the other way round, terminating
with either only <CR> ot <LF><CR>.
If you don't know exactly how lines will be terminated, first use
str_replace to normalize the line terminations:
$data = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n\r", "\r", "\n"), "\n", $data);
then simple explode() the data to receive an array of lines:
$arlines = explode("\n", $data);
You could also use preg_split to combine these operations:
$arlines = preg_split("/(\r\n|\n\r|\r|\n)/s", $data);
Disclaimer: all untested.
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