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Re: finding newlines [message #183946 is a reply to message #183941]

Thu, 28 November 2013 16:09

bill
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On 11/27/2013 11:47 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> 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'.
>
Very good - that was it.
Thanks,

bill

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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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