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Re: finding newlines [message #183941 is a reply to message #183936]

Wed, 27 November 2013 16:47

Jerry Stuckle
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On 11/27/2013 5:11 AM, bill wrote:
> On 11/25/2013 4:36 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> On 11/25/2013 11:12 AM, bill wrote:
>>> I am trying to find the first line bread in a string
>>> where string = "Hand Carried by Patient\n\nTo Whom It May
>>> Concern:\n\nR...."
>>>
>>> This code does not work: $pos = strpos($progressNote,"\n\n");
>>> it returns pos = false
>>>
>>> where do I err?
>>>
>>> bill
>>
>> How did you get the string in $progressNote? Did you set it
>> yourself, or was it possibly sourced from a web page?
>>
>> What do you get if you echo $progressNote?
>>
>>
> I create the progress note in another script that is POSTed to this one.
>
> looking at progress note tells me that is is as I said, actually, I
> copied it from the display of the debug statement:
>
> echo basename(__FILE__) . ": " . __LINE__ .
> ":progNote=>$progressNote<<br />";
>
> As it should work, and does not, I will spend more time on it tomorrow
> (when I have the time.
>
> thanks
>
> bill

OK, in that case you have the characters '\' and 'n'. In PHP,
"\n" is a newline character. You need to either escape the '\' as in
"\\n\\n", or use single quotes around your string, i.e. '\n\n'.

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		finding newlines By: bill on Mon, 25 November 2013 16:12
		Re: finding newlines By: Christoph Michael Bec on Mon, 25 November 2013 16:32
		Re: finding newlines By: bill on Tue, 26 November 2013 14:36
		Re: finding newlines By: Richard Yates on Mon, 25 November 2013 16:34
		Re: finding newlines By: Denis McMahon on Mon, 25 November 2013 20:11
		Re: finding newlines By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 25 November 2013 21:23
		Re: finding newlines By: Denis McMahon on Tue, 26 November 2013 18:05
		Re: finding newlines By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 26 November 2013 18:46
		Re: finding newlines By: somewhere on Sat, 30 November 2013 16:50
		Re: finding newlines By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 01 December 2013 16:11
		Re: finding newlines By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 25 November 2013 21:18
		Re: finding newlines By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 25 November 2013 21:36
		Re: finding newlines By: bill on Wed, 27 November 2013 10:11
		Re: finding newlines By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Wed, 27 November 2013 15:56
		Re: finding newlines By: bill on Thu, 28 November 2013 16:42
		Re: finding newlines By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Thu, 28 November 2013 19:20
		Re: finding newlines By: Denis McMahon on Fri, 29 November 2013 00:57
		Re: finding newlines By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 27 November 2013 16:47
		Re: finding newlines By: bill on Thu, 28 November 2013 16:09

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