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Sergiu Svet
Sergiu Svet

Reputation: 101

PHP: Explode textarea lines as separate array element

I have a textarea that contains phone numbers, each number in a separate line. I want to explode that string into an array using 

explode("\n", $numbers);

or

explode("\r\n", $numbers);

This is not working. Please, help me. Thanks!

Upvotes: 6

Views: 12694

Answers (3)

Abdo-Host
Abdo-Host

Reputation: 4123

Use this

<?php

 $input = $_POST['textarea_name'];
 $new_array = array_values(array_filter(explode(PHP_EOL, $input)));

 // explode -> convert textarea to php array (that lines split by new line)
 // array_filter -> remove empty lines from array
 // array_values -> reset keys of array

?>

Upvotes: 3

CodeCaster
CodeCaster

Reputation: 151604

As the manual states: Returns an array of strings.

So you'll have to store the result. The or won't work that way either. If you don't know whether the input will contain \n or \r\n, you could do a replace to replace \r by an empty string, then explode on \n.

This should do the trick:

$numbers = explode("\n", str_replace("\r", "", $numbers));

Upvotes: 10

Frederick Behrends
Frederick Behrends

Reputation: 3095

$records = preg_split('/[\r\n]+/', $mystring, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);

This should do it.

Upvotes: 11

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