note 74276 rejected from function.fgetcsv by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Sun, 17 May 2009 18:11:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 74276 rejected from function.fgetcsv by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: pinkgothic at gmail dot com
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I find the documentation mildly misleading:
fgetcsv() does not - as this documentation seemingly claims in the descriptive line - get a line out
of the file (via the file pointer) and then parses this for CSV fields, but instead retrieves a CSV
row out of the file, which it then splits into an array.
The difference may seem trivial, but reading the description of this function I feared it might not
support linebreaks in individual CSV values. Testing, however, revealed that fgetcsv()
[fortunately!] works as one would expect from a CSV parser, and my fears were without cause.
In fact, fgetcsv() is remarkably hard to break. It's not confused by the value
""",""" for example (three quotation marks followed by a comma
followed by three quotation marks - which represents the value "quotation mark, comma,
quotation mark" in case it's not immediately obvious).
I hope this extra documentation is helpful for someone.