It works fine on windows and on mac. If it still doesn't work, provide the relevant code and reopen the report.

-Tal

On Solaris, fgets doesn't recognize EOL other than LF.

This code is used in the following examples...
<pre>
<?php

$filename = "/tmp/tsv";
$delimiter = "\t";

$fp = fopen($filename, 'r');
if (!$fp) return false;

$data = array();

if ($header) $head = explode($delimiter, fgets($fp, 1024));

while ($line = fgets($fp, 1024)) {
        $line = explode($delimiter, $line);
        if (!isset($head)) $data[] = $line;
        else {
                $newline = array();
                for ($i=0; $i<count($head); $i++) {
                        //if (!empty($line[$i]))
                        $newline[$head[$i]] = 
empty($line[$i]) ? '' : $line[$i];
                }
                $data[] = $newline;
        }
}

fclose($fp);

print_r($data);
?>

This file was created on macintosh using Simpletext and 
scp'd to a sun:
cat	dog	hat
dad	mom	boy
you	wow	sun

When you look at it w/ "od -a" on solaris (octaldump, with 
the "show named characters" flag), it looks like:

0000000  c  a  t ht  d  o  g ht  h  a  t cr  d  a  d  ht
0000020  m  o  m ht  b  o  y cr  y  o  u ht  w  o  w  ht
0000040  s  u  n ht
0000044

And the above php code creates this output:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => cat
            [1] => dog
            [2] => hat
dad
            [3] => mom
            [4] => boy
you
            [5] => wow
            [6] => sun
            [7] => 
        )

)

od of the same file created with vi on solaris looks like:

0000000  c  a  t ht  d  o  g ht  h  a  t nl  d  a  d ht
0000020  m  o  m ht  b  o  y nl  y  o  u ht  w  o  w ht
0000040  s  u  n nl
0000044

and the output from the php code looks like:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => cat
            [1] => dog
            [2] => hat

        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => dad
            [1] => mom
            [2] => boy

        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [0] => you
            [1] => wow
            [2] => sun

        )

)

For a file created on a PC, I imagine the resulting data 
would look right, but the last element of every array would 
contain an unseen CR.

The different platforms use of different eol markers.  This 
is widely acknowledged.  Look at the last few users 
comments in the documentation for fgets, 
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgets.php:

"...Note that fgets() does not cope with MAC newlines (i.e. 
a single CR character, or "\r")..."

"...If you are doing cross platform development where your
PHP programs need to run on windows, unix and macs, or even 
are reading from files that were developed on various 
platforms, do not (I repeat DO NOT) use fgets().  This is 
because fgets(), as mentioned before, does not deal with 
carriage returns and line feeds for all systems..."

I forgot to change the status when I posted my last 
comment.

This is actually a bug. There is also similar bug #16521

This bug has been fixed in CVS.

In case this was a PHP problem, snapshots of the sources are packaged
every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can
grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/.
 
In case this was a documentation problem, the fix will show up soon at
http://www.php.net/manual/.

In case this was a PHP.net website problem, the change will show
up on the PHP.net site and on the mirror sites in short time.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

Working on Sun 5.8.

I have an output that looks like the following- separated by lots of spaces and NOT <TAB>. How can I massage this data so that the spaces between the year, 2004 and 0 AND 0 and 3 become TAB?
Thu Aug 5 19:41:00 EDT 2004               0       3
Thu Aug 5 19:41:00 EDT 2004               0       3
Thu Aug 5 19:41:00 EDT 2004               0       3