Convert PHP_EOL to string value?, string should show '\r\n' in Windows Options

[CharlesEF]

Hi All,

Boy, I thought this would be easy but after searching and reading for several hours (maybe I'm using the wrong keywords) I'm asking for help. I want the actual characters of the PHP constant PHP_EOL to show in a string.

I want a platform independent way, which is why I'm using the constant PHP_EOL, to show the actual character sequence.


Thanks for any help,

Charles

[Brian Chandler]

I don't have the Answer, sorry, but I think you will not find a simple way of doing this -- i.e. there won't be a function string_escape() which converts newlines and tabs to their backslash representations. I would attack the problem by trying to remember how to address individual bytes within a string, then print them out one by one, with a switch for CR and LF.

I vaguely remember that you can just treat strings as arrays $string[0], or something involving the typically messy PHP syntax like curly brackets.

HTH

[Brian Chandler]

I tried this fragment:

CODE

$stest = "one\ntwo";
$s = str_split($stest);
echo '<p><tt>'; print_r($s); echo '</tt>';

But it seems that the newline "character" is represented by one byte on both Linux and Windows. Can you give an example of how to get definitely distinct byte strings?

[CharlesEF]

Thanks for your input. I too was only able to get 1 byte (13) returned during all my tests. After getting some sleep I think I'm approaching my problem from the wrong angle.

Converting PHP_EOL will not help me with my problem. What I'm trying to do is import data into my database using the MySQL command 'LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE' (using a PHP script). The 'LINES TERMINATED BY' require the '\r\n' or '\n' character sequence. Since I develop on Windows and transfer to my web host running Linux, these 2 systems use different end of line characters, I will have to approach my problem by opening each file before import and find the EOL character before I actually start the import.

I mean, my data files were created on Windows so when I transfer them to my hosting site they will still have the Windows EOL characters, not Linux.

[CharlesEF]

oh… Sorry I can't help.

:'(

I looked around the site and on google. Can't find anything there either. Are you still experiencing this issue?

No, I don't have a problem any more. I wrote a file i/o class to read the file and determine the EOL character(s).