Try: $string_as_array = explode("\n", $string); echo "<pre>"; print_r($string_as_array); echo "</pre>"; The array that you get will contain segments of the string that is separated with \n. Let me know if that helps. Best regards, Peter Lauri www.dwsasia.com - company web site www.lauri.se - personal web site www.carbonfree.org.uk - become Carbon Free -----Original Message----- From: Angelo Zanetti [mailto:angelo@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 10:43 AM To: PHP List Subject: help with \n\r in strings Hi all, I receive a text file with a whole bunch of strings. and each line is terminated by what I presume is \n\r however when I read the string into PHP, it seems that the last column of the row and the first column of the next row are connected but it appears as a space but I've done all kinds of tests like $spacePos = strrpos($dateAmount, ' '); but this is always empty. So is there a way to test for \r\n? or what else can I use to delimit these two values (last column of row and first column of next row)? Thanks in advance. Angelo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Angelo Zanetti Systems developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Telephone:* +27 (021) 469 1052 *Mobile:* +27 (0) 72 441 3355 *Fax:* +27 (0) 86 681 5885 * Web:* http://www.zlogic.co.za *E-Mail:* angelo@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:angelo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php