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Request #42357 Add optional parameter for custom line ending to fputcsv()
Submitted: 2007-08-21 06:13 UTC Modified: 2021-03-29 12:54 UTC
Votes:8
Avg. Score:4.2 ± 0.8
Reproduced:8 of 8 (100.0%)
Same Version:3 (37.5%)
Same OS:5 (62.5%)
From: php at phihag dot de Assigned: girgias (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Filesystem function related
PHP Version: 5.2.4RC2 OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-08-21 06:13 UTC] php at phihag dot de
Description:
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Currently, there is no way to set a custom line ending when writing CSV files with fputcsv. For instance, this is needed when writing CSV for various Microsoft products which require "\r\n" as line ending.
Therefore, an optional parameter $ending (as for stream_get_line), which defaults to auto-detection (current behaviour), would be nice.

To ensure the result is still a valid CSV file, either document using anything else than line endings (or tabs etc.) is not a good idea, or define/use constants for the common line endings.

Reproduce code:
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<?php
$f = fopen("php://stdout", "w");
fputcsv($f, array("a", "b c"), ",", '"',  "\r\n");
fclose($f);
?>

Expected result:
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As a php string:
"a,\"b c\"\r\n"

Actual result:
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n/a, without the last parameter: "a,\"b c\"\n" (hardcoded line ending in file.c)

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 [2007-08-21 06:20 UTC] derick@php.net
Does it work if you open the file in text mode ("wt") ? That *should* do the trick.
 [2007-08-22 16:25 UTC] php at phihag dot de
No, same behavior (tested on Linux).

From php.net/fopen:
*Windows* offers a text-mode translation flag ('t') ...

Small correction of the original bug report: \n is always used, have a look at ext/standard/file.c:~1991:

(...)
        smart_str_appendc(&csvline, '\n');
        smart_str_0(&csvline);
(...)
 [2011-04-08 21:39 UTC] jani@php.net
-Package: Feature/Change Request +Package: Filesystem function related
 [2016-10-25 17:57 UTC] cmb@php.net
> Small correction of the original bug report: \n is always used,
> […]

Indeed[1], and this is actually a bug. RFC 4180[2] states:

> Each record is located on a separate line, delimited by a line
> break (CRLF).

[1] <https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-7.0.12/ext/standard/file.c#L1927>
[2] <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180>
 [2021-03-29 12:54 UTC] girgias@php.net
-Summary: add optional parameter for line ending to fputcsv +Summary: Add optional parameter for custom line ending to fputcsv() -Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: girgias
 
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