parsing a list in an html text area into single values

Hello

I am trying to parse a text area that will recieve input in this format:

value1
value2
value3

so all values are seperated by return lines, is there anyway I can parse this into an array using return line as the delimiter?

new array('$formfield', '/n')

Do I have the right idea here?

Thanks

Using the name of the form field you can use:

$contents = explode("\r\n", $_REQUEST['textarea']); //replace textarea with the name of the text area

You can then do what you want with the contents which are stored line by line in an array called $contents

Depending on the OS, the "\r" may not be there. You can cover that with:

$text = str_replace("\r", '', $_REQUEST['textarea']);
$contents = explode("\n", $text);

Thanks alot guys, that worked wonderfully! 😃