How to get rid of control M character

Alain Forget

Hi,

I'm using PHP code to develop a www interface to let users edit text
files stored on a Solaris UX server. Users are using Windows based
WWW browser access this web site. Once they have selected the file
they want to edit, it's presented in a text window (form) so thay can
modify the file.

The submit button passes the contents of the field to a variable and
it is saved to disc.

From the WWW interface everything seems OK, but when I look to the
file, each line has a "^M" (control-M) at the end.

This makes the files bigger and it can cause problem in a near future
because these files have to be processed by shell scripts to populate
a mySQL DB.

Someone has seen that before and what was the solution.

Thanks,
Alain

Jul 17 '05 #1

Tim Van Wassenhove

On 2003-12-05, Alain Forget <Al******@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm using PHP code to develop a www interface to let users edit text
files stored on a Solaris UX server. Users are using Windows based
WWW browser access this web site. Once they have selected the file
they want to edit, it's presented in a text window (form) so thay can
modify the file.

The submit button passes the contents of the field to a variable and
it is saved to disc.

From the WWW interface everything seems OK, but when I look to the
file, each line has a "^M" (control-M) at the end.

Just run dos2unix on the files. (this will remove the <cr>)

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Jul 17 '05 #2

Justin Koivisto

Tim Van Wassenhove wrote:

On 2003-12-05, Alain Forget <Al******@hotmail.com> wrote:

From the WWW interface everything seems OK, but when I look to the
file, each line has a "^M" (control-M) at the end.

Just run dos2unix on the files. (this will remove the <cr>)

If you don't have access to that, before writing the file use something
like:

$contents=preg_replace('/(\r\n|\r|\n)/s',"\n",$contents);

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Jul 17 '05 #3

Chung Leong

Use strtr(). It's designed for situations like yours.

$text = strtr($text, array("\r" => ""));

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Hi,

I'm using PHP code to develop a www interface to let users edit text
files stored on a Solaris UX server. Users are using Windows based
WWW browser access this web site. Once they have selected the file
they want to edit, it's presented in a text window (form) so thay can
modify the file.

The submit button passes the contents of the field to a variable and
it is saved to disc.

From the WWW interface everything seems OK, but when I look to the
file, each line has a "^M" (control-M) at the end.

This makes the files bigger and it can cause problem in a near future
because these files have to be processed by shell scripts to populate
a mySQL DB.

Someone has seen that before and what was the solution.

Thanks,
Alain

Jul 17 '05 #4

Alain Forget

Justin Koivisto <sp**@koivi.com> wrote in message news:<ez*****************@news7.onvoy.net>...

Tim Van Wassenhove wrote:

On 2003-12-05, Alain Forget <Al******@hotmail.com> wrote:

From the WWW interface everything seems OK, but when I look to the
file, each line has a "^M" (control-M) at the end.

Just run dos2unix on the files. (this will remove the <cr>)

If you don't have access to that, before writing the file use something
like:

$contents=preg_replace('/(\r\n|\r|\n)/s',"\n",$contents);

Justin,

The preg_replace command acts like magic on my files.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU ... 1000 times....!!! ;-)

Alain

Jul 17 '05 #5