Doc #61048 [Com]: fgetcsv() length of 0 DOES NOT mean unlimited maximum line length

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61048&edit=1 ID: 61048 Comment by: cmbecker69 at gmx dot de Reported by: blajoie55 at gmail dot com Summary: fgetcsv() length of 0 DOES NOT mean unlimited maximum line length Status: Open Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: Linux PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Confirmed by testing on Win7. PHP 5.0.4 (and 5.0.5) treats $length=0 as $length=1, while PHP 5.1.0 treats it as infinite (well, at least 131073). Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-12 05:20:41] phpmpan at mpan dot pl Confirmed. 5.0.4 uses code from r181491 (in 5.0 branch), which sets length to 1 if 0 is passed as the second argument. The behaviour described by the documentation was introduced by r181490 (in 5.1). Therefore the documentation should be changed to: "Omitting this parameter (or setting it to 0 in PHP 5.1.0 and later) the maximum line length is not limited, which is slightly slower." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-10 18:43:24] blajoie55 at gmail dot com updating summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-10 18:28:32] blajoie55 at gmail dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.fgetcsv#refsect1-function.fgetcsv- parameters --- The documentation states the following for the length parameter for fgetcsv(): "Must be greater than the longest line (in characters) to be found in the CSV file (allowing for trailing line-end characters). It became optional in PHP 5. Omitting this parameter (or setting it to 0 in PHP 5.0.4 and later) the maximum line length is not limited, which is slightly slower." This is wrong. I have a php 5.0.4 environment using fgetcsv() in a while loop as follows: fgetcsv($csvHandle, 0, self::DELIMITER); And the 0 does not put no limit on the max line length, instead the fgetcsv() call gets each individual character on the line in the file ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61048&edit=1