Posted by Sean on 12/28/05 15:59

If you have

//Numbers.txt
1
2
3
4
5
6 <-New Line here

And you do print_r(file('numbers.txt')); You get =

Array
(
[0] => 1

[1] => 2

[2] => 3

[3] => 4

[4] => 5

[5] => 6

)

Again look at "6 <-New Line here". To the file function this is
going to be treated as 1 element. If it was 540A0A it would be
different. Why? Because that is what the file function does.

Please read again, "Note: Each line in the resulting array will
include the line ending, so you still need to use rtrim() if you do not
want the line ending present."

In a text editor it comes up as having a new line after 6 but the new
line character is on the same line as 6.

Now do you get this example?
//numbers.txt
1
2
3

5
6
7

Between 3 and 5 there are 2 new line characters in the middle of the
file. So that's why you get.
Array
(
[0] => 1
[1] => 2
[2] => 3
[3] =>
[4] => 5
[5] => 6
[6] => 7
)
Except if the last line was 0A0A it would be treated as one element in
the array.

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