Question

I’m using PHP to process some files (run regexp, replace etc) and I’ve noticed that after processing, there’s always a newline at the beginning of all the files I’ve processed. I’ve narrowed it down to these few lines:

#!/usr/bin/php

<?php
$test = file('php://stdin');

file_put_contents('php://stdout',$test);

?>

If you save this and pipe some text through it, you’ll notice there’s a newline at the beginning of the output. Where is it coming from and how do I get rid of it? Thanks!

PS: PHP version is: PHP 5.3.6 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Sep 8 2011 19:34:00)

Answer 1

Erm, it’s between the shebang line and the <?php. I think you can figure out easily enough how to remove it.