reading newline line from socket

Okei I'm gone through all faqs, used search engines, search through this mailinglist archive and still didn't find answer to my problem. I don't paste code here since I believe most of you know what I'm talking about. I have this one server which uses UDP protocol, and I'll send for it one newline terminated string as command. It replies with one string BUT this string has newlines in it. Now I'm asking is it possible to read this string with PHP? I have done this with PERL. I was hoping to do it with PHP also but now I'm not sure is it possible. - Timo Snellman