array question

Anon

i want to put a list of items into an array. each item is on a new line.
for example:
apples
oranges
grapes

if this was entered into a textarea field in a form, .. how would i seperate each item into an array named $items[]

Anon

$items = explode("\n", $whatever);

Anon

thanks, it works when i test it out on it's own, but when i use it with forms it's not working for me. part of the problem could be that i'm trying to explode one element of an array.

echo "<pre>$patch_list[0]</pre>";

The above code displays what is below:
A
B
C
D

$new=explode("\n",$patch_list[0]);
$count=count($new);
echo "$count";

The above code displays "1".

I used the <pre> tags above to verify that the line breaks are there, but for some reason it won't explode correctly.

Any ideas? Thanks for the time,
-Michael

Anon

sorry for the messed up post.. where there are big line breaks, i used <.pre.> tags, but it looks like this forum doesn't display them.

Anon

Hmmm. Not sure what your problem is. Could be something with the form. Here is the code that I executed from what you shared:

$patch_list=array("A\nB\nC\nD","E\nF\nG\nH","I\nJ\nK\nL");
$new=explode("\n",$patch_list[0]);
$count=count($new);
echo "$count";

This returned a result of 4, which is correct. Can you post how you are populating the $patch_list array?

Anon

Dash,
Thank you very much for helping me out.. it was in fact the form.

I did not put quotes around the value of the textarea field, so it was cutting off everything after the first \n.

It works great now!
Thanks,
-Mike