Posted by Max on 08/28/06 20:38

Well I may have solved the problem myself. A simple trim seemed to
clear it up as all the strange characters seem to be at the beginning
of the string.

Max

Max wrote:
> I'm having a major issue in which I am reading data from a telnet
> server with socket_read, and the data apears to be coming back with
> what seems like either line feeds that stay on the same line or
> left-arrow characters. I can't really figure out what is coming back,
> so I'm not sure how to parse it out. If I simply dispay it on a web
> page, it works, but if I try to feed it through an ajax call, it prints
> the first line, then stops. I'm sure this is because it line feeds on
> the same line or something. Also, I cannot do proper regex matching on
> the lines as well.
>
> Is there anything in PHP that can clean up these lines? Or would I have
> to build a preg_match statement and only allow letters and punctuation?
>
> Thanks,
> Max

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