Question

I have a text file which has got several names in it example:

mathew
james
kelvin
peter
jackson
linak
thomas

the main code is given below:

 $names = file(names.txt);

    foreach ( $names as $name) {

    //then this call to a function 

    $data = 'localhost/q?detail='.$name;

    //////do some code etc..

    //insert into table
     }

my problem is it calls like localhost/q?detail=mathew%0A
and next localhost/q?detail==%0D%0A and next localhost/q?detail=james%0A

How do I get rid of those %0D%0A things?

Answer 1

Those are line terminators (or separators; depending on how you look at it) and are included by default in the items returned by file(), as the documentation states:

Returns the file in an array. Each element of the array corresponds to a line in the file, with the newline still attached.

—PHP documentation: file

To remove them, simply pass the FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES flag to file():

FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES

Do not add newline at the end of each array element

So in your code just do the following:

$names = file('names.txt', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);