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Bug #49228 fgets returns 2 lines
Submitted: 2009-08-12 02:19 UTC Modified: 2009-08-15 21:26 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:2 (100.0%)
Same OS:2 (100.0%)
From: admin at kthxbai2u dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Unknown/Other Function
PHP Version: 5.3.0 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-08-12 02:19 UTC] admin at kthxbai2u dot com 
Description:
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When I use fgets() it returns the line, and the next one...

Correct me if I am wrong, but when you ask for one line, it should return one line?

There is not even a function (that I have found yet) that returns ONLY 1 line...

fgets should not be adding a /r/n at the end, that should be up to the programmer...

Reproduce code:
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From manual page: function.fgetss
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$fp = fopen("AD_SYSTEM/popup.ads",'r'); 

while($line=fgets($fp)) 
{ 
//add the link text to the array
$ads[] = $line;
}

 
fclose($fp); 

echo $ads[1];

Expected result:
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"http://somepopup.url/advertisement.html" (without quotes)

Actual result:
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"http://somepopup.url/advertisement.html
" (without quotes, notice the 2nd line)

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 [2009-08-12 02:31 UTC] admin at kthxbai2u dot com 
I was looking at fread() just now, but it requires a length...

I dont want to specify a length.

I am looking for the equivalent of readLn() from some other language i know (forget which one) where it reads the entire line, and only outputs that one line... Meaning there is no new line after the line I requested...
 [2009-08-12 02:36 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
As per the docs, fgets() returns the newline character that it reads.  That doesn't mean there are 2 lines.  It is a single line terminated by a newline character.  If you don't want that newline character, trim() it off.
 [2009-08-15 21:26 UTC] admin at kthxbai2u dot com 
You can use trim with no args and it cuts the newline out?

See I was used to the newline not being there... And no one has mentioned that method anywhere... I googled for that for hours on end and there are always people asking that but no solutions...

Thanks, now I can resume that part of my work! <3 PHP
 
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