help!!! array problems

[Anon]

I have an array that I need to remove the newline character from the end of each line. I am using the file() function to make my array from a file, which automatically adds a newline character to the end of each value in the array. I need to get rid of that newline, because when I call the values back, it leaves a space between characters following that value. For example, if I wanted to display april 12, 1900 and 12 was a varible from my array, it would display like this: april 12 , 1900. I've tried chop() and trim(), but they only seem to work on strings, not arrays. PLEASE HELP!
thanks~

[mrskhris]

Try array_walk();

[Anon]

Two fixes work for this:

1: read with fread and use split/explode to build your array

2: do a str_replace on the array

For 1:

$fp = fopen("somefile","r");
$body = fread($fp,filesize("somefile"));
$lines = split("\n",$body);

I leave number 2 up to you.

[Anon]

Thanks!
I knew of both those options, the first one was a bit sloppy (extra code.. yuck!) and the second one wasnt working for me because I was useing the wrong characters. Aparently when you use the file function, it places a \r\n character at the end of each line, not just a \n character. so:
str_replace("\r\n", "", $array);
works, but str_replace("\n", "", $array); does not.