Newlines?

[Anon]

I am making a script that writes to a flat text file, (as a database), however, everytime it writes it puts it on several lines. How do I stop this?

Thanks

[jcornett]

Can you post the code in question? There are a couple reasons this might happen... 🙂

John Cornett

[Anon]

#add entry otherwise..
$new_message = "$db0|$db1|$db2|$db3|$db4|$db5|$db6|$db7|$db8|$db9|$db10|";

$new_message = str_replace("\n","",$new_message);

$new_message .= "\n";

$data = "dba/beta_tape.dba";

$open_file = fopen("$data", "a");
flock($open_file, 2);

fputs($open_file, $new_message);
flock($open_file, 3);

Close the file when you're done. Don't forget to wash your hands

fclose($open_file);

print("$new_message was added");

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Thanks

[badman]

$new_message = str_replace("\n","",$new_message);

$new_message .= "\n";
// why are you adding a new line character after replacing it with " "

probably this is adding /n again!!!

[Anon]

There is a lot of newlines in it, and I only want one at the end.

[Anon]

Help ahh!

[jcornett]

Josh,

Since I don't know what values the variables hold I can't say for sure, but your code looks fine... I would try doing a string replace for "\r" as well.

Let us know if that helps. 🙂

John Cornett