No more pesk newlines

[bubblenut]

Am I the only one who gets pissed off with the trailing newline that fgets allways gives?
If not then prehapse some will be interested in this oh, so simple function.

function fgetsnl( $handle, $length=1024 ) {
    return str_replace( "\n", '', fgets( $handle, $length ) );
}

[joshwalsh]

Unless this simple function is to add more functionality than a single call to an existing php function... what's the point of it?

[bubblenut]

Almost all the time that I play with text files directly I use the following

$fp = fopen( $file, 'r' );
while( !feof( $fp ) ) {
  $line = str_replace( "\n", '', fgets( $fp ) );
}

this function cuts a little bit of that out. Also abstracts the logic out into a single place so that if (god forbid) I ever have to port any of my code over to a windows machine I just have to change the "\n" to "\r\n" in the function rather than every place I read a file.
There's two points, I'll try to think up some more.
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Aha! Yes, everyone knows that bugs are scared of functions called fgetsnl, so, if I have a function by that name in my code all the bugs will be scared away and I'll have bug free code! I knew there was another reason 😉