text file formatting using file()

[sy-co]

This text file doesnt want to play!! I've no idea why.
This address 'http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/168618.txt' when inserted into the example below, works fine.

But the one in the code example below reads entirely on one line so the <br> is never inserted.

The text file looks fine on the original server but it doesn't have any new lines when copied to my local server. Any ideas why?

$file_lines=file("ftp://ftp.ohayosensei.com/current.txt");

foreach($file_lines as $line)
{
print $line . "<br>";
}

[ZibingsCoder]

Maybe a silly question, but what transfer type did you use when copying it to your local server? ASCII, Binary, something new and utterly amazing that I have no clue about?

[sy-co]

I didn't have to copy it to my local server as I'm using file() to open it on a remote server. That's one of the cool things about file().

It then takes each line of the file you're opening and stores it in an array to process however you like.

So if the file is all stuck on one line it's working more like file_get_contents() which returns the contents o a file as a string.

But I've no idea as to why this particular text file in the code example above does not behave as it should.

[laserlight]

Do a print_r($file_lines)

[Weedpacket]

Looks to me like the file was saved with Macintosh linebreak conventions (0x0a). There's a note on dealing with this on the [man]file[/man] page, or you could file_get_contents and explode on "\r" yourself.