Re: help with \n\r in strings

If you just want to test for \n\r - if ( substr ( -2, $my_string ) == "\n\r" ) { // substr with the negative value of 2 will give you the last two characters of your string // do some stuff } I think it would be a good idea to explain a little bit more what you are trying to accomplish. Are you preparing the string for a database insert? Do you want to sanitise the string? Stripping off those kind of characters can also be done with trim (or ltrim - trims white space characters from the left of the string or rtim - trims from the right). Read the manual for more details and options. If you are not quite sure what those characters are, you can find out with this little helper. $characters = preg_split( '//', $my_string ); foreach ( $characters as $character ) { echo "ASCI value of the character {$character} is: " . ord ( $character ) . "<br />\n"; } Then you can look up the values in a ASCI table. /frank 29 dec 2006 kl. 11.01 skrev Peter Lauri:

Try: $string_as_array = explode("\n", $string); echo "<pre>"; print_r($string_as_array); echo "</pre>"; The array that you get will contain segments of the string that is separated with \n. Let me know if that helps. Best regards, Peter Lauri www.dwsasia.com - company web site www.lauri.se - personal web site www.carbonfree.org.uk - become Carbon Free -----Original Message----- From: Angelo Zanetti [mailto:angelo@zlogic.co.za] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 10:43 AM To: PHP List Subject: [PHP] 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Angelo Zanetti Systems developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Telephone:* +27 (021) 469 1052

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