Posted by Steven James Samuel Stapleton on 06/05/05 10:29

Is there any way to perform an unbuffered read in PHP when reading from
STDIN?

I.E. if I have the code

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$chr = "";
while(!feof(STDIN))
{
$chr = fgetc(STDIN); //I could just as easily do fread(STDIN, 1)
if($chr == " ")
break;
}
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and enter the following string (note this is how you would enter the string
in a program to have it have the same value I'd type in):
"this is a test\n"

It will stop reading at the newline, and not the first space.

Any ideas?


System Info
Environment: Windows XP Pro (used both the windows and cygwin command lines)
PHP Version: 5.0.3

Thanks
-Jim Stapleton

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