PHP, \n, and file formats

[lomn75]

Is there a way to get PHP to deal with an input file independently of OS encoding? I'm trying to filter based on \n but get crap when stuff like \r comes into the picure. I'd prefer to stick to explode() rather than regular expressions, though I can convert over.

 

[BollWeevil]

Is chomp() what you're looking for? Or do you actually care about the placement of /n?

 

[nuclearfly]

Couldn't you just check for \n or \r when you are checking?

 

[tim_m]

what exactly are you trying to do? get an array of the lines of the file? if so, then file() will do that. if you don't want the newlines attached, then you can

foreach($lines as $k => $v) {
    $lines[$k] = rtrim($v);
}

 

[pr0pensity]

Use str_replace(). Replace \r\n with \r and \r with \n.

 

[lomn75]

Use str_replace(). Replace \r\n with \r and \r with \n.

Ahh, thanks.

//edit: I do care about placement, as I'm parsing multi-line chunks of arbitrary content. I usually key off of stuff like \nParticularTag\n since ParticularTag could also appear as internal data. Multi-line rules out the line-by-line solution, and explode() isn't flexible enough to handle all the possible newline possibilites.