note 58124 added to function.fgetcsv

The fgetcsv function seems to follow the MS excel conventions, which means: - The quoting character is escaped by itself and not the back slash. (i.e.Let's use the double quote (") as the quoting character: Two double quotes "" will give a single " once parsed, if they are inside a quoted field (otherwise neither of them will be removed). \" will give \" whether it is in a quoted field or not (same for \\) , and if a single double quote is inside a quoted field it will be removed. If it is not inside a quoted field it will stay). - leading and trailing spaces (\s or \t) are never removed, regardless of whether they are in quoted fields or not. - Line breaks within fields are dealt with correctly if they are in quoted fields. (So previous comments stating the opposite are wrong, unless they are using a different PHP version.... I am using 4.4.0.) So fgetcsv if actually very complete and can deal with every possible situation. (It does need help for macintosh line breaks though, as mentioned in the help files.) I wish I knew all this from the start. From my own benchmarks fgetcsv strikes a very good compromise between memory consumption and speed. ------------------------- Note: If back slashes are used to escape quotes they can easily be removed afterwards. Same for leading and trailing spaces. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+58124 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58124&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58124&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58124&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58124&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58124&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58124&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58124&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+58124&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php