Parsing file in PHP; how to detect newlines? - php

Question

I've got a problem where I'm trying to read a text file like this:
Joe
Johnson
Linus
Tourvalds
and while parsing it in php, I need to be able to detect the newlines. I'm trying to correctly define $newline. I'm looping through the array of lines in the $file variable.
while($line = next($file))
if($line = $newline)
echo "new line";
The problem is that I can't seem to match the newline character. I know that it is actually showing up in the $file array, because this:
while($line = next($file))
echo $line;
outputs the file verbatim, with newlines and all. I've already tried "\n", " ", and I'm not sure what to try next. A little help?

Answer 1

$file = file("path/to/file.txt");
// Incase you need to call it multiple times ...
function isNewLine($line) {
return !strlen(trim($line));
}
foreach ($file as $line) {
if (isNewLine($line)) {
echo "new line<br/>";
}
}

Answer 2

Maybe something like this would work for you?
while($line = next($file)) {
if(in_array($line, array("\r", "\n", "\r\n"))) {
echo "new line";
}
}

Answer 3

I think this solution may help you guys. This works if you are parsing csv that is generated from Mac or windows. Reading csv with multilines created in Mac, gives problem i.e. you cannot read each line in a loop but all csv data is read as single line.
This problem is solved by following solution:
//My CSV contains only one column
$fileHandle = fopen("test.csv",'r');
$codesArray = array();
count = 0;
while (!feof($fileHandle) ) {
$line = fgetcsv($fileHandle);
if($line[0]!="") {
$data = str_replace("'", "", (nl2br ($line[0])));
$dataArray = explode('<br />' ,$data );
foreach($dataArray as $data) {
$codesArray[] = trim($data);
}
}
}
echo "<pre>";
print_r($codesArray);