Question

I have an excel file that I converted to a CSV so it could be parsed in PHP. However, for some reason the cells in excel only have Carriage Returns (\r) and no Line Feeds (\n). I need line feeds in the csv or else the PHP parses everything in one line, which it shouldn’t do.

Is there a way to add line feeds to an excel/csv file?

Thanks!

EDIT: It would seem as though I was exporting the file as the wrong csv—I didn’t do Windows Comma Separated. Thanks for the answers guys.

Answer 1

Before you read in your CSV file, do:

ini_set('auto_detect_line_endings', true);

Then set it to false right after reading the file.

From the manual:

This enables PHP to interoperate with Macintosh systems, but defaults
to Off, as there is a very small performance penalty when detecting
the EOL conventions for the first line, and also because people using
carriage-returns as item separators under Unix systems would
experience non-backwards-compatible behaviour.