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PHP - a good way to split up into lines and add prefix and suffix.

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Probably something like this:

<?php

//Process the form post
if($_POST['text_to_format']){
    $sFormatText = fncProcessText($_POST['text_to_format']);
}else{
    $sFormatText = 'Put Text Here';
}

?>

<html>

    <form id="format" action="/test.php" method="post">
        <textarea name="text_to_format"><?php echo $sFormatText ?></textarea>
        <input type="submit" value="Format">
    </form>

</html>

<?php

//Text Formatting Fuction
function fncProcessText( $sText = null ){

    //Make sure something is in $sText
    if($sText){
        //Create an array by splitting on line breaks
        $aText = explode("\r\n", $sText);

        //Glue the array together with the desired formatting
        return "{" . implode("},{\n", $aText) . "},";
    }else{
        return 'Put Text Here';
    }
}

?>

paperreduction 2010-07-24 19:15:46

Looks promising! However the function fncProccessText makes the HTML form disappear. When I remove the function... the form appears...

Dan 2010-07-24 19:21:15

I noticed that it was missing a semi-colon after return and changed action to "filenamehere.php" and method to "post" and now I am getting back "{Array}," inside the Textarea

Dan 2010-07-24 19:26:41

sorry, i didn't test that code before posting it. i'll take a look.

paperreduction 2010-07-24 19:29:47

Fixed it! Nice. But anyway so it's formatted nicely... right now it's like this:{ 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 95, 95, 95, 51,},{ 6, 60, 60, 60, 60, 60, 60, 6, 95, 95, 95, 51,

Dan 2010-07-24 19:36:13

I mean in here `51, },{ 6, 60,` there is a line break between the `,` and `{` so the `{` is on a line all by itself...

Dan 2010-07-24 19:36:50

okay, so are you saying there is an extra line break?

paperreduction 2010-07-24 19:45:39

try exploding on "\r\n"... I just updated the code above to do just that.

paperreduction 2010-07-24 19:53:26

Got it :) Thanks!!

Dan 2010-07-24 20:06:53

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