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Posted by Shelly on 07/21/05 14:26
ltrim() didn't work.
Shelly
> "Ken Robinson" <kenrbnsn@rbnsn.com> wrote in message
> news:1121919616.031532.326200@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>> Shelly wrote:
>>> I write to a file with fwrite. I do it with wordwrap (which I now think
>>> is
>>> unnecessary). In the text area that it appears, it is left adjusted.
>>> Anyway, the command is:
>>>
>>> $message = wordwrap($_POST['Message'], 70);
>>>
>>> where Message is the name of the text field.
>>>
>>> Now when I go to read it, I use fread. The command is:
>>>
>>> $message = fread($handle, 5000);
>>>
>>> and I put in the text area of the read form:
>>>
>>> <textarea name="Message" cols="70" rows="15" readonly="readonly">
>>> <?php echo wordwrap($message, 70); ?></textarea>
>>>
>>> Here is the problem. There are about 15 spaces or so before the first
>>> bit
>>> of text. After that, everything is fine. It wordwraps fine and does
>>> new
>>> paragraphs. I cannot seem to find where those initial spaces entered
>>> the
>>> picture.
>>
>> You're correct, you don't have to use wordwrap() before writing the
>> text to a file. You also don't have to use it when displaying the
>> message in the textarea. It will be automagically wrapped at the
>> correct places.
>>
>> Please dump the incoming text at the start of your program, by adding
>> the following code:
>>
>> echo '<pre>';print_r($_POST['Message']);echo '</pre>';
>>
>> and see if the incoming text is correct.
>>
>> If you still can't figure out where the extra spaces are coming from,
>> you can do use the ltrim() function to remove those spaces when
>> displaying the text.
>>
>> <textarea name="Message" cols="70" rows="15" readonly="readonly">
>> <?php echo ltrim($message); ?></textarea>
>>
>> Ken
>>
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