Posted by James Kaufman on 09/27/05 18:38

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:40:06AM -0400, Jake Gardner wrote:
> This is a stretch and I doubt you can do this very easily, but I was
> wondering if there is a way to define behaviors that happen throughout
> a script before execution for example if the OS is windows, all
> strings are terminated with \r\n, if Linux, then \n without adding
> addition ifs throughout the code.
>

You could do something like:

if (strtoupper(substr(php_uname('s'), 0, 3)) == 'WIN') {
define('CRLF', "\r\n");
} else {
define('CRLF', "\n");
}

Then use the constant CRLF in your strings. You can put the above snippet in a
file that is auto-prepended whenever php is invoked.

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