explode newline problem

[Azkoyen]

Hi All,

I hope you can help me with this, it's wrecking me poor head:

$pizza = "piece1
piece2
piece3
piece4
piece5
piece6";
$pieces = explode("\n", $pizza);

foreach($pieces as $thing)
{
	print "'".$thing."'";
}

/*
The above code will print out this:

'piece1
''piece2
''piece3
''piece4
''piece5
''piece6'

Note that the delimiter (actual newline) DOES get included in the resulting string!  WTF!!!
*/

as you can see, my $pizza var is split into parts by newline characters. When I explode it using the newline as a delimiter, I would expect that the newline wouldn't be included in the result. If I change all those newlines to spaces, and use space as the delimiter, I don't get the spaces in the result.

Can someone explain why the newlines are included in the result? My real problem is when reading flat files. I try exploding by newline, and the above occurs.

Thanks in Advance!

Az.

[bubblenut]

Are you working on a Windows box? I believe they use \r\n (cariage return, line feed)
HTH
Rob

[Azkoyen]

Yeah I'm on a Windows box, but \r\n doesn't work either. The only way I can make the system work is by adding '$thing = rtrim($thing);' just before I display the result.

That 'fix' is crap though, as in my real code I don't go through the resulting array, and to do so would slow things down.

Any other ideas?

btw - I always thought \r\n was Unix, and \n was windows?