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Have a form that reads a file and presents it for editing in a <TEXTAREA> window. Then saves the data using PHP fwrite. However, if somebody is using a Windows machine when using the form, the resulting file has ^M on the end of each line. Any ideas on how to solve this or get rid of these characters?

Try the script if you are using Windows at bizshop.com/php/choosefile.phtml

I believe that Windows uses 'rn' as a EOL character and UNIX machines only use a 'n' character for an EOL.

You may be able to do something like this to remedy the problem:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">code:</font><HR><pre>
<?
$fileOutput=ereg_replace("rn","n",$fileOutput;
?>
[/quote]

Or perhaps this would work:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">code:</font><HR><pre>
<?
$fileOutput=ereg_replace(13,"n",$fileOutput);
?>
[/quote]

Thanks! Solution one worked (so I didn't try solution two.)