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ok, i've got a guestbook,

its flat file,
I put the file into an array line by line, using file()
I then explode each line, the problem is, if a user press ENTER it will go to the next line in the flatfile. causing thr script to think its a new eentry and create a new post and it will just geenraly mess up the script,
I've tried looking up ways to check for \n or I think its HEX 0A but I cant come up with anything, naybe im not looking in the right places...

but yet agian any help would be greatlly appreciated as usual with my questiosns

Thanks
Trigger

Alright first check out this thread
http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum12/HTML/001335.html

There's some things in there that might help
Second what you may want to do is just run a replace
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$data = ereg_replace("(\r\n

When working with file() in MOST cases trim() will do you for carriage returns "\n" and new lines "\n"

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argh.
just use nl2br() on the user's date, will convert all newlines into <br>s. Just be sure to filter the html out before you call nl2br().

Actually that won't work. nl2br only inserts the break tags it doesn't remove the newline so he'd still have the same problem.



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actually, bitdamaged, you're right!
Always assumed that thing did what it said on the label (turn newlines into <br>s), and not that it would leave the darned things in.
still, I would not use the ereg_replace, but a simpler (and faster) string replace:

$data = str_replace(array("\n","\r\n","\r"),'<br />',$data)

Ok next question , i havent got \n or anything in the file but it goes to a new line... would you say the \n is invisble? becaus all's I have in my file is

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Trigger

you won't see a \n or \r the slash makes these escape characters for characters you can't see

this:
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Trigger

Depending on what editor you work in you might have a setting in the preferences to view hidden characters. If so, select it and you will see all the space and returns and what not. It's helped me more than once in figuring out why my code wasn't doing what I expected.

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