PHP explode and line terminators

[William Krick]

I have a string containing concatenated ascii "records" that are each
terminated by '\n'.

For testing purposes, I construct sample data like this...

$mystring = "a|b|c|d\n"."e| f|g|h\n"."i|j|k |l\n"."m|n|o|p\ n";
I want to use explode() to put the records into an array like this...

$records = explode("\n", $mystring);

However when I do this, the resulting $records array contains one
extra empty element that I assume is caused by the final terminating
'\n'

Is there some slick way to solve this problem?

Is it possible that "explode" isn't the right tool for the job?

....
Krick

[Michael Fesser]

.oO(William Krick)

$records = explode("\n", $mystring);

However when I do this, the resulting $records array contains one
extra empty element that I assume is caused by the final terminating
'\n'
Correct.
Is there some slick way to solve this problem?

$records = explode("\n", trim($mystring) );

Micha

[steve]

"Michael Fesser" wrote:

.oO(William Krick)

$records = explode("n", $mystring);

However when I do this, the resulting $records array contains

one

extra empty element that I assume is caused by the final

terminating

'n'

Correct.

Is there some slick way to solve this problem?

$records = explode("n", trim($mystring) );

Micha

do a preg_replace on the string (there are faster ways but this works
anyways)

$mystring = preg_replace("/\n$/", ’’, $mystring);

and then explode it.

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[William Krick]

Michael Fesser <ne*****@gmx.ne t> wrote in message news:<cg******* *************** **********@4ax. com>...

.oO(William Krick)

$records = explode("\n", $mystring);

However when I do this, the resulting $records array contains one
extra empty element that I assume is caused by the final terminating
'\n'

Correct.

Is there some slick way to solve this problem?

$records = explode("\n", trim($mystring) );

Micha

BINGO! you da man. Thanks!

[Chung Leong]

"William Krick" <wk****@gmail.c om> wrote in message
news:c0******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...

I have a string containing concatenated ascii "records" that are each
terminated by '\n'.

For testing purposes, I construct sample data like this...

$mystring = "a|b|c|d\n"."e| f|g|h\n"."i|j|k |l\n"."m|n|o|p\ n";
I want to use explode() to put the records into an array like this...

$records = explode("\n", $mystring);

However when I do this, the resulting $records array contains one
extra empty element that I assume is caused by the final terminating
'\n'

Is there some slick way to solve this problem?

Is it possible that "explode" isn't the right tool for the job?

...
Krick

$records = preg_split('/[\r\n]+/', $mystring, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_E MPTY);

A regular expression split is safer than explode in this case, since you're
using a newline character as the delimiter.

[Theo]

"Chung Leong" <ch***********@ hotmail.com> wrote in
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"William Krick" <wk****@gmail.c om> wrote in message
news:c0******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...

I have a string containing concatenated ascii "records" that are each
terminated by '\n'.

For testing purposes, I construct sample data like this...

$mystring = "a|b|c|d\n"."e| f|g|h\n"."i|j|k |l\n"."m|n|o|p\ n";
I want to use explode() to put the records into an array like this...

$records = explode("\n", $mystring);

However when I do this, the resulting $records array contains one
extra empty element that I assume is caused by the final terminating
'\n'

Is there some slick way to solve this problem?

Is it possible that "explode" isn't the right tool for the job?

...
Krick

$records = preg_split('/[\r\n]+/', $mystring, -1,
PREG_SPLIT_NO_E MPTY);

A regular expression split is safer than explode in this case, since
you're using a newline character as the delimiter.

maybe also use trim? it also automatically gets rid of all kinds of
things at the end of a string (newlines, spaces etc), or you can use
something specific if you prefer.

[steve]

"steve" wrote:

trim would only remove spaces, and not "\n"

do a preg_replace on the string (there are faster ways but this works anyways)

$mystring = preg_replace("/\n$/", ’’, $mystring);

and then explode it.

My mistake. Trim does trim all the other characters besides white
space
http://ca3.php.net/trim

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