help with \n\r in strings

Hi all, I receive a text file with a whole bunch of strings. and each line is terminated by what I presume is \n\r however when I read the string into PHP, it seems that the last column of the row and the first column of the next row are connected but it appears as a space but I've done all kinds of tests like $spacePos = strrpos($dateAmount, ' '); but this is always empty. So is there a way to test for \r\n? or what else can I use to delimit these two values (last column of row and first column of next row)? Thanks in advance. Angelo

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Angelo Zanetti
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