Different outputs on command line and browser.

[ABSK]

This is a part of my code :

	$intext = "this    is        a    \n\n\n\r\r     test    sentence";
	$word = preg_split("/[(\s)*(\n)*(\r)*(\t)*(\f)*]+/i",$intext);
	print_r($word);

When I run it in the browser, I get:

Array ( [0] => this [1] => is [2] => a [3] => test [4] => sentence )

But when I run it in the command prompt, I get

Array
(
[0] => this
[1] => is
[2] => a
[3] =>
)

Why the difference? I want it to be as in the browser.

I am using PHP 5.2.8 on Windows XP.

[Shrike]

Works for me:

// Windows XP, PHP 5.3
C:\>php test.php
Array
(
    [0] => this
    [1] => is
    [2] => a
    [3] => test
    [4] => sentence
)
// Linux, php 5.2.9
debian-dev:~# php test.php
Array
(
    [0] => this
    [1] => is
    [2] => a
    [3] => test
    [4] => sentence
)

[Weedpacket]

Because the browser is rendering it as HTML and HTML doesn't treat linebreaks as linebreaks (look at the page source).

[Shrike]

Weedpacket;10920441 wrote:

Because the browser is rendering it as HTML and HTML doesn't treat linebreaks as linebreaks (look at the page source).

That doesn't make sense Weed, there would still be an equal number of array elements. Besides I get the following in a browser too (not source)

Array ( [0] => this [1] => is [2] => a [3] => test [4] => sentence ) 

[Weedpacket]

Ah, I thought that might have been a typo. In that sense I get the same results either way.

Of course, while it wouldn't explain different results, the regular expression is almost certainly wrong (it's definitely way more complicated than it needs to be to do what it does). It looks like what is wanted is /\s+/ but what it is would be done by /[\s(*)]+/.

[Weedpacket]

Ah, I thought that might have been a typo. In that sense I get the same results either way.

Of course, while it wouldn't explain different results, the regular expression is almost certainly wrong (it's definitely way more complicated than it needs to be to do what it does). It looks like what is wanted is /\s+/ but what it is would be done by /[\s(*)]+/.

[ABSK]

I use xampp.
This is what I had been doing.
I made two copies of the same file, one in my site root (htdocs) and another in the php folder (that has the php.exe file)
I used the htdocs file in the browser and the php folder file from cmd. They give different results.
But when I use the htdocs file from cmd, the result is the same.
Don't know why it happened.