Remove End of Line Characters

Hi, I have a simple file as follows: There are in the total of 513 words in sinus.txt, lung.txt and stomach.txt. 151 sinus.txt 105 lung.txt 257 stomach.txt What I want to do is to print the first line in the Description column, and have each of the following lines be entered into the database by assigning the number as $words, and the filename into the Filename column. The script in the following performs exactly the way I wanted, except for the fact that in my database, each of the entries looks something like this: sinus.txt followed by a square for each of the variables that contains text. I don't have this problem for my numbers at all. for ($i=1; $i <= 3; $i++) { echo $i . ": " . $lines4[$i] . "\n"; list($words, $file) = explode(" ", $lines4[$i]); echo "File: $file has $words words\n\n"; substr($file, 0, -3); //substr($lines4['0'],0,-1); $query3="INSERT INTO youtoo(Description,Filename,Words) VALUES ('$lines4[0]','$file', '$words')"; $result1= mssql_query($query3) or die ("Couldn't Create New Entry into Database $myDB"); } I tried using rtrim(), chop() using the $line4 as I have declared and there is no use. Finally, I used substr(), but this does not seem to get what I wanted either, and the square is still in the way. I checked my text file in the text editor, and I see nothing that could have produced the square during the database entering process. Does anyone know what I have done wrong here? Anything is appreciated. Alice ====================================================== Alice Wei MIS 2009 School of Library and Information Science Indiana University Bloomington ajwei@indiana.edu