On 11 October 2011 12:58, <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have come across an issue with my string that I would like to find a
> faster way to resolve.
>
> It seems there are new lines and returns at different positions of the
> string.
>
>
>
> First I exploded on the new line explode(“\n”, $ string)
>
> This gave me a nice array but when I try to implode I get the new lines
> again.
>
> There is not a consistent position and there seems to be some hidden returns
> in the array as well.
>
>
>
> Is there a way, or has someone written a filter that would allow me to
> remove all the newlines and returns from the array or string.
>
> Understand I have resolved this issue but I think I have to be going about
> this the hard way because it is just too complex .
>
>
>
> FYI
>
> $filter = array("\r\n", "\n", "\r");
>
> str_replace($filter,’’,$string) ß this is useless in this situation I have
> tried and it does not change the string at all.
You don't want to remove them. You want to replace them with a constant.
$lines = explode(PHP_EOL, str_replace($filter, PHP_EOL, $string));
for example.
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