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Doc Bug #38918 fputcsv() fgetcsv() inconsistency odd number trailing backslashes
Submitted: 2006-09-22 00:03 UTC Modified: 2006-11-16 20:14 UTC
Votes:4
Avg. Score:4.8 ± 0.4
Reproduced:4 of 4 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (25.0%)
Same OS:2 (50.0%)
From: mike at opendns dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 5.2.0 OS: Linux, debian sarge
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2006-09-22 00:03 UTC] mike at opendns dot com
Description:
------------
If a string you write to a CSV file with fputcsv() ends with an _odd_ number of backslashes, then when you read it back in with fgetcsv(), it'll miss the delimeter and combine two elements into one.

Reproduce code:
---------------
$tmp_file = '/tmp/csv_f_up.tmp';

$data_to_write = array('string ends with _odd_ number of backslashes \\\\\\',"and isn't the last element");

echo "data_to_write:\n";
var_dump($data_to_write);

$h_w = fopen($tmp_file, 'w');
fputcsv($h_w, $data_to_write);
fclose($h_w);

$h_r = fopen($tmp_file, 'r');
$data_read_in = fgetcsv($h_r);
fclose($h_r);

echo "data_read_in:\n";
var_dump($data_read_in);

Expected result:
----------------
data_to_write:
array(2) {
  [0]=>
  string(48) "string ends with _odd_ number of backslashes \\\"
  [1]=>
  string(26) "and isn't the last element"
}
data_read_in:
array(2) {
  [0]=>
  string(48) "string ends with _odd_ number of backslashes \\\"
  [1]=>
  string(26) "and isn't the last element"
}
}

Actual result:
--------------
data_to_write:
array(2) {
  [0]=>
  string(48) "string ends with _odd_ number of backslashes \\\"
  [1]=>
  string(26) "and isn't the last element"
}
data_read_in:
array(1) {
  [0]=>
  string(77) "string ends with _odd_ number of backslashes \\\",and isn't the last element""
}

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 [2006-09-25 12:23 UTC] tony2001@php.net
This is expected since "\" is the escape character.
Reclassified as docu problem - fputcsv() does not escape the data, you have to do it yourself.
 [2006-10-15 04:10 UTC] dave@php.net
Are you sure this is a documentation problem? RFC 4180 says nothing about \ characters needing to be escaped, and quotes (") _are_ escaped properly in fputcsv(). The problem lies with fgetcsv() incorrectly parsing a single \ at the end of a value (two \'s work, which is inconsistent at best).
 [2006-11-16 20:14 UTC] mike at opendns dot com
this isn't a documentation problem.  after reading RFC 4180, it's clear this is a problem with fgetcsv().  also leading newlines cause problems.  will resubmit a new bug with better example code.
 [2010-08-03 10:26 UTC] surfchen at gmail dot com
yes, it is not documentation problem. so why not change the package attribute?

and also , confirm this with php 5.2.9 on windows:
$arr=array('\\','"');
$h=fopen('test.csv',"w");
fputcsv($h,$arr);
fclose($h);

$h=fopen('test.csv',"r");
$line=fgetcsv($h);
var_dump($line);

result:
array(1) {
  [0]=>
  string(6) "\",""
"
}


sorry for duplicate post, I missed the comments when reading #38929
 
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