Explode inserts spaces between each character in string

[need2know2]

I'm filling an array with explode(";" $linetoread) and then using the array to write to a file. When I open the file the array elements have spaces between each character. I've tried split as well with the same results. If viewed in a browser, all the spaces are missing even though they exist in the source.

[bonski]

I'm filling an array with explode(";" $linetoread) and then using the array to write to a file. When I open the file the array elements have spaces between each character. I've tried split as well with the same results. If viewed in a browser, all the spaces are missing even though they exist in the source.

hi there,

can you share us the script so that we can figure out what's wrong.

bonski

[arggg]

try using the trim($variable) ; function to trim out all the spaces.

[ronverdonk]

Trim() does not remove embedded blanks, just the white space at start and end of a vriable. To remove embedded blanks combine trim() with a reg exp like[php]$string = trim (preg_replace ('`[\s]+`', ' ', $string));[/php]Ronald

[need2know2]

Thanks for the replies.
Here's the code

// File to copy from
$fSourcePath = "HCFD-SM.xml";
$fSourceHandle = fopen($fSourcePath, 'r');
 
//File to copy to
$fTargetPath = "test.txt";
$fTargetHandle = fopen($fTargetPath, 'w');
 
//MP3Tag file
$fMP3Source = "mp3tag.csv";
$fMP3Handle = fopen($fMP3Source, 'r');
 
 
$thisLine = fgets($fMP3Handle);
$thisLine = fgets($fMP3Handle);
$arrMP3 = explode(";", $thisLine);
 
 
for($i=0;$i<count($arrMP3);$i++)
{
    echo $arrMP3[$i] . "<br>";
}
 

Viewed in the browser it looks fine. But then I write to the file:

$currentLine = 0;
$lineCount = count($arrMP3);
while($currentLine < $lineCount)
{
    fwrite($fTargetHandle, $arrFile[$currentLine]);
    if(trim($arrFile[$currentLine]) == "</itunes:owner>")
    {
        fwrite($fTargetHandle, "       <item>\r\n");
        fwrite($fTargetHandle, "           <title>" . $title . "</title>\r\n");
        fwrite($fTargetHandle, "           <link>" . $path . $filename . "</link>\r\n");
 
// etc
// etc
        fwrite($fTargetHandle, "       </item\r\n");
    }    
    $currentLine++;
}

I have spaces between every character

[satas]

It seems that variables $title, $path and $filename have not been initialized.

[need2know2]

Satas you are correct. Those files are not initialized because I pasted in old code in which I was using a list rather than an array

All the fwrites are actually using the array elements created with explode(...)

Unfortunately, both ways produce the spaces in the strings

ronverdonk - your solution would work if I didn't have spaces in some of the strings that I want to keep...

Thanks for the replies

[satas]

Those files are not initialized because I pasted in old code in which I was using a list rather than an array

Could you provide us working, not "old" code?

[hsriat]

I have spaces between every character

If the spaces are between all the characters of the file (including XML tags ie. <item> is displayed as < i t e m >), then you got to do something with the file encoding. That's not explode's mischief.