Topic: Counting lines

[NLCJ]

Hello,
I'm creating a program that analyzes information that is exported by another program. That program exports it in this way:
Value1 Value2 Value3 Value4
Value1 Value2...

In order to insert them in the database, I first have to know how many lines are inserted. They get send through HTML post. I already tried:
$lines = explode("\n", $string);
$number_lines = count($lines);

But this always results in 1. How do I fix this?

Regards,
Chris

[PFMaBiSmAd]

There must not be any \n in the data.

Have you examined what is in $string or in $lines to see if they contain what you expect?

[rwwd]

Hi there,

If you are wanting a line counter, then this does the job for me:-


$lines = substr_count($comments, "\r\n") + 1;


This works just fine for me - hope it's what your after anyway.

Cheers,
Rw

[NLCJ]

There must not be any \n in the data.

Have you examined what is in $string or in $lines to see if they contain what you expect?

Yes, nothing. Just an enter.

Hi there,

If you are wanting a line counter, then this does the job for me:-


$lines = substr_count($comments, "\r\n") + 1;


This works just fine for me - hope it's what your after anyway.

Cheers,
Rw

Thanks a lot, this also does the job for me.

[rwwd]

Cool. Have a nice cool beer now!

Rw