First and last line

I would like to grab the first and last line of a form's textarea with
PHP's PCRE functionality. Anyone have a recipe to do that? Or have a
better suggestion?

re: First and last line

Assuming the lines are separated by \n, you can simply do:

$lines = explode("\n", $text);
$firstLine = $lines[0];
$lastLine = array_pop($lines);

re: First and last line

Hello!
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> Assuming the lines are separated by \n, you can simply do:
>
> $lines = explode("\n", $text);
> $firstLine = $lines[0];
> $lastLine = array_pop($lines);[/color]

Be careful with array_pop() here!
If $lines is used later perhaps the missing line is needed.
You should either use

$firstLine = $lines[0];
$lastLine = $lines[count($lines)-1];

or

$firstLine = array_shift($lines);
$lastLine = array_pop($lines);

Greetings,
Hero Wanders

re: First and last line

ZeldorBlat wrote:
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> Assuming the lines are separated by \n,[/color]

The spec says that, for both the POST and GET methods, lines
are separated by CRLF pairs.

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Jock