Removing blank lines

[scrupul0us]

Heres my dilema, I have a batch file that parses out the contents of a directory to a textfile which is on my server. However, due to dos being whatever, it adds a blank line after the contents.... so when I parse out the file, i get a blank listed entry... how an I get around this?

My code:

<div id="list">
<ol>
<?php
$handle = fopen("playlist.txt", "r");
while (!feof($handle)) {
   $buffer = fgets($handle);
   $buffer = str_replace(".mp3", "", $buffer);
   $buffer = stripslashes($buffer);
   echo "<li>" . $buffer . "</li>";
}
fclose($handle);

?>
</ol>
<?php echo "Last Updated: " . date("F j, Y"); ?>
</div>

[rehfeld]

trim() will strip whitespace from both sides of a string

so if after triming, nothing is left, it will evaluate to boolean false, and it wont echo anything

<div id="list">
<ol>
<?php
$handle = fopen("playlist.txt", "r");
while (!feof($handle)) {
   $buffer = fgets($handle);
   $buffer = str_replace(".mp3", "", $buffer);
   $buffer = stripslashes($buffer);
   $buffer = trim($buffer);
   if ($buffer) echo "<li>" . $buffer . "</li>";
}
fclose($handle);

?>
</ol>
<?php echo "Last Updated: " . date("F j, Y"); ?>
</div> 


// btw - if you want to echo last update time of your file, do this. currently, your listing the current date

<?php echo "Last Updated: " . date("F j, Y", filemtime('playlist.txt')); ?>

[scrupul0us]

i did try this originally but it doesnt work... im still gettin one blank list item at the end of the list

[rehfeld]

maybe when you did it, you did it wrong.

have you actually tried the code i posted?