|  | Posted by ZeldorBlat on 07/12/07 21:54 
On Jul 12, 5:14 pm, "dino d." <dinodorr...@yahoo.com> wrote:> I need to parse a string by linefeeds and paragraphs.  I need to
 > preserve all periods and linefeeds too, so I can't simply use strtok
 > or explode (both of which don't tell you where or which (period of lf)
 > delimiter was found).  So, I've written a function that tells me where
 > the periods and linefeeds are. The problem is, I am having trouble
 > figuring out what the character values are for the linefeed.
 >
 > For example, suppose I have this string:
 >
 > $text=
 > "This is a sentence.  I need to find linefeeds and periods.
 >
 > Sometimes a sentence will end in a period.  Sometimes not
 >
 > I need to capture them all";
 >
 > So, basically, I need to grab all of the sentences, AND preserve the
 > knowledge of where all the periods and line feeds are.  But, it looks
 > like I'm encountering multiple characters for a hard return. Which is
 > strange, because simply comparing a character to "\n" is finding the
 > locations of the hard returns fine. So two questions-
 >
 > 1) Is there a way to display the ASCII value of a char in PHP?
 > 2) Is there an easy way to find and save the location of all of the
 > hard returns?
 >
 > Thanks,
 > Dino
 
 As for #1, take a look at ord():
 <http://www.php.net/ord>
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