[RESOLVED] issue converting to a text file any ideas?

minifairy

I use FCK editor to allow easier editing of text files for my clients. Now I am wanting to export some information to a | delimited text file and FCK is adding some character at the end of lines that is screwing things up. I use EDIT2Plus as an editor and the characters show up in the data file as a square box and EDIT2Plus recognizes them as 'invalid CR/LF' I know it is some sort of a return character or line feed and I know that I can probably use eregi_replace to get rid of it if I only knew what to put in the replace string. I tried using the \n and \r like php uses but that doesn't work. Way back when in basic it was a CHR$(155) but that was ancient history. Anyone know how to trap this now days on a PC?

minifairy

Any help on locating and replacing carriage returns or line feeds in a text file using php??

dagon

i have no problems with the fck editor adding chars

Any help on locating and replacing carriage returns or line feeds in a text file using php??

just str_replace /n and or /r

minifairy

as I stated originally I have tried replacing with /r and /n and both together /r/n and it doesn't do it. I've tried str_replace and eragi_replace both and neither one will remove the extra lines. I think I need to be able to search for non-printable characters or something.

NogDog

Have you tried using [man]trim/man or [man]rtrim/man?

dagon

$foo = preg_replace('/\W+/', '', $foo);

i think its W better check

minifairy

Ok the

$foo = preg_replace('/\W+/', '', $foo);

worked sort of. It took out all the spaces inbetween all the words as well and also removed the '<' from the html tags that were in the text like '' became ' b ' . But it did at least take out the odd carriage return or line feed that I needed to get rid of.

So now can you tell me what the heck the '/\W+/' bit means and where would I look to see if 'W' was the right thing. I haven't found any decent reference to explain these pattern things and I would greatly like to understand it. Also how do I fix it so it will leave the '' and the '' and still take out the line feed that I don't want.

Oh and thanks.

laserlight

So now can you tell me what the heck the '/\W+/' bit means and where would I look to see if 'W' was the right thing. I haven't found any decent reference to explain these pattern things and I would greatly like to understand it.

Read the PHP manual on PCRE pattern syntax.

minifairy

Ok that helps. How come when I try to search the php docs for pattern or pattern matching it doesn't find it. I've been looking for that forever. Ok nevermind got it now.

Ok so I changed the pattern to '/ \W+/' shouldn't that remove any non word character that occurs after a ?