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break text into an array : php

26-10-2007 08:00PM

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ChicoMendez

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hi,
i have text in a variable and i want to break the text into an array broken down line by line.
how do i do that ?

tnx

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#2 26-10-2007 09:54PM

daymobrew

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Look at the split function. Some useful examples in the 'User contributed notes' section.

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#3 27-10-2007 12:10AM

Bluefrog

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$lines = explode('\n' $yourstring);

I like explode - mainly because it's called explode...

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#4 28-10-2007 05:57AM

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Bluefrog wrote: »

I like explode - mainly because it's called explode...

Yeah same here actually... implode too.

Might want to str_replace the remaining \r's too if line breaks are coming in as \r\n ... or make something more elaborate to detect which line-breaks are present... I can never remember which ones are unix/windows... gonna have to look that up some day.

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#5 28-10-2007 06:39PM

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yup, explode is de job!

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#6 30-10-2007 09:29AM

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explode is perfect when the delimiter is static, while split is for when the delimiter changes as you can use a regular expression for the delimiter.

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