How to get rid of control M character

[Alain Forget]

Hi,

I'm using PHP code to develop a www interface to let users edit text
files stored on a Solaris UX server. Users are using Windows based
WWW browser access this web site. Once they have selected the file
they want to edit, it's presented in a text window (form) so thay can
modify the file.

The submit button passes the contents of the field to a variable and
it is saved to disc.

From the WWW interface everything seems OK, but when I look to the
file, each line has a "^M" (control-M) at the end.

This makes the files bigger and it can cause problem in a near future
because these files have to be processed by shell scripts to populate
a mySQL DB.

Someone has seen that before and what was the solution.

Thanks,
Alain

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

Re: How to get rid of control M character

On 2003-12-05, Alain Forget <AlainHPC@hotma il.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I'm using PHP code to develop a www interface to let users edit text
> files stored on a Solaris UX server. Users are using Windows based
> WWW browser access this web site. Once they have selected the file
> they want to edit, it's presented in a text window (form) so thay can
> modify the file.
>
> The submit button passes the contents of the field to a variable and
> it is saved to disc.
>
> From the WWW interface everything seems OK, but when I look to the
> file, each line has a "^M" (control-M) at the end.[/color]

Just run dos2unix on the files. (this will remove the <cr>)

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[Justin Koivisto]

Re: How to get rid of control M character

Tim Van Wassenhove wrote:
[color=blue]
> On 2003-12-05, Alain Forget <AlainHPC@hotma il.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>From the WWW interface everything seems OK, but when I look to the
>>file, each line has a "^M" (control-M) at the end.[/color]
>
> Just run dos2unix on the files. (this will remove the <cr>)[/color]

If you don't have access to that, before writing the file use something
like:

$contents=preg_ replace('/(\r\n|\r|\n)/s',"\n",$conten ts);

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[Chung Leong]

Re: How to get rid of control M character

Use strtr(). It's designed for situations like yours.

$text = strtr($text, array("\r" => ""));

Uzytkownik "Alain Forget" <AlainHPC@hotma il.com> napisal w wiadomosci
news:dc666117.0 312050814.6baa3 237@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I'm using PHP code to develop a www interface to let users edit text
> files stored on a Solaris UX server. Users are using Windows based
> WWW browser access this web site. Once they have selected the file
> they want to edit, it's presented in a text window (form) so thay can
> modify the file.
>
> The submit button passes the contents of the field to a variable and
> it is saved to disc.
>
> From the WWW interface everything seems OK, but when I look to the
> file, each line has a "^M" (control-M) at the end.
>
> This makes the files bigger and it can cause problem in a near future
> because these files have to be processed by shell scripts to populate
> a mySQL DB.
>
> Someone has seen that before and what was the solution.
>
> Thanks,
> Alain[/color]

[Alain Forget]

Re: How to get rid of control M character

Justin Koivisto <spam@koivi.com > wrote in message news:<ez2Ab.148 4$Uz.48664@news 7.onvoy.net>...[color=blue]
> Tim Van Wassenhove wrote:
>[color=green]
> > On 2003-12-05, Alain Forget <AlainHPC@hotma il.com> wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> >>From the WWW interface everything seems OK, but when I look to the
> >>file, each line has a "^M" (control-M) at the end.[/color]
> >
> > Just run dos2unix on the files. (this will remove the <cr>)[/color]
>
> If you don't have access to that, before writing the file use something
> like:
>
> $contents=preg_ replace('/(\r\n|\r|\n)/s',"\n",$conten ts);[/color]

Justin,

The preg_replace command acts like magic on my files.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU ... 1000 times....!!! ;-)

Alain