Richard L. Buskirk Senior Software Engineer/Systems Administrator You can?t grow your business with systems that are on life support... > -----Original Message----- > From: Al [mailto:news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 10:17 AM > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: newline and return issues in string > > > > On 10/11/2011 7:58 AM, 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. > > > > Understand the newlines and returns do not display in the string as > > literals. Meaning you do not see /n or /r it is hidden. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Try this: > > $strippedStr= preg_replace("%(\n|\r)%", "#", $string); > > The "#" will let your see what's happening. Change it to simply "". for > the > final version. > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php PERFECT !!!! Thank you so much for that -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php