Find out what the hex is for a carriage return and use strtok() to get an array of words, then use strlen to get the number of chars in each array element, and use array_pop() or array_shift(), iterating over the strlen, or test for NULL for each element in the array.. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Hull, Douglas D [mailto:ddhull@xxxxxx] Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 4:45 PM To: Note To php mysql List (E-mail) Subject: getting one line of info at a time 1. I have a regular html textarea field for a person to enter in words with a carriage return after each word. In PHP how would I go about getting one line (or word) at a time? Then I will be needing to get character by character. 2. I will then be searching my database to get matching values in order to do other things. But at the moment I am jus trying to figure #1 out. Thanks for any help. Doug -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php