Hi You can try something like this:
<?php
ob_start();
system('ls', $retval);
$raw = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$arr = explode(chr(10),$raw);
print_r($arr);
it gives you a array back whit the lines
2011/1/26 Donovan Brooke <lists@xxxxxxx>
> Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
>
>> Dear list -
>>
>> I have a program with the following statement: $out = system('ls -l',
>> $retval); The output is a string. How do I format the output to be in
>> the Linux format, that is in columns. I cannot think of a way to use
>> explode to do it.
>>
>> Advice and comments, please.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ethan
>>
>> MySQL 5.1 PHP 5.3.3-6 Linux [Debian (sid)]
>>
>
>
> Something like?:
>
> print "<pre>";
>
> $out = system('ls -l', $retval);
> print "</pre>";
>
>
> Donovan
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