Re: newline and return issues in string

On 10/11/2011 04:44 PM, Richard Quadling wrote:

On 11 October 2011 12:58,<admin@buskirkgraphics.com> wrote:

I have come across an issue with my string that I would like to find a faster way to resolve. It seems there are new lines and returns at different positions of the string. First I exploded on the new line explode(“\n”, $ string) This gave me a nice array but when I try to implode I get the new lines again. There is not a consistent position and there seems to be some hidden returns in the array as well. Is there a way, or has someone written a filter that would allow me to remove all the newlines and returns from the array or string. Understand I have resolved this issue but I think I have to be going about this the hard way because it is just too complex . FYI $filter = array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"); str_replace($filter,’’,$string) ß this is useless in this situation I have tried and it does not change the string at all.

You don't want to remove them. You want to replace them with a constant. $lines = explode(PHP_EOL, str_replace($filter, PHP_EOL, $string)); for example.

try to implement a string builder using array or arrayobject and on insert; filter / replace your text / characters using regex,