The only explaination is that 'vi' is putting an extra line in there that
you're not seeing.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Monte Ohrt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:05 AM
Subject: [PHP] fgets question
> Hi, I have a question about fgets(), it seems to pick up an extra line
> at the end of a text file.
>
> example, I open a new file named "test" with the vi editor and make it 8
> lines long like so (showing newlines as \n):
>
> 1\n
> 2\n
> 3\n
> 4\n
> 5\n
> 6\n
> 7\n
> 8\n
>
> I create this PHP program and run it:
>
> <?php
> $fd = fopen ("test","r");
> while (!feof ($fd)) {
> $buffer = fgets($fd, 4096);
> echo "buffer is $buffer";
> }
> fclose ($fd);
> ?>
>
> Here is the output (showing newlines as \n):
>
> buffer is 1\n
> buffer is 2\n
> buffer is 3\n
> buffer is 4\n
> buffer is 5\n
> buffer is 6\n
> buffer is 7\n
> buffer is 8\n
> buffer is
>
>
> My question, why is there an extra line? Or in other words, how do I get
> this to loop exactly 8 times if there are only 8 lines?
>
> TIA
> Monte
>
>
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