Question

first off I’m a noob to PHP but here is my problem. I am trying to read a line from a text file, manipulate the line then write the original and new line to a new text file. For some reason it adds an extra return or new line in the output file.

Original File Text

/Volumes/EC/EC_0101/B-W Art/001_0101.EPS
...
/Volumes/EC/EC_0101/B-W Art/010_0101.EPS

HTML Output for Testing

EC:EC_0101:B-W Art:001_0101.EPS EC EC_0101 B-W Art 001_0101.EPS
...
EC:EC_0101:B-W Art:010_0101.EPS EC EC_0101 B-W Art 010_0101.EPS

New Text File Output

EC:EC_0101:B-W Art:001_0101.EPS
    EC  EC_0101 B-W Art 001_0101.EPS
...
EC:EC_0101:B-W Art:010_0101.EPS
    EC  EC_0101 B-W Art 010_0101.EPS

Should be tab delimited

EC:EC_0101:B-W Art:001_0101.EPS EC  EC_0101 B-W Art 001_0101.EPS
...
EC:EC_0101:B-W Art:010_0101.EPS EC  EC_0101 B-W Art 010_0101.EPS

My Code

$file = fopen("files_list.txt", "r") or exit("Unable to open file!");
$filename = "files_list_tab.txt";
//Output a line of the file until the end is reached
while(!feof($file))
  {
  $strLink = fgets($file);
  //$strComment = $strLink;

  $strLink= str_replace("/",":",$strLink);
  $strLink= str_replace(":Volumes:","",$strLink);
  $strComment= str_replace(":","\t",$strLink);

  $strCombined = $strLink."\t".$strComment;
  $array[] = $strCombined;

  echo $strCombined. "<br>";

  }
fclose($file);

echo "Done <br>";

$strCombined = $array;
file_put_contents($filename, $strCombined);
echo "Done <br>";

Answer 1

Try:

...     
$strCombined = trim($strLink)."\t".$strComment;
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