[PLUG] Tabs

[Bill Patterson <patterson@computer.org>]

You wrote:
>Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 00:03:04 -0400
>From: Paul <emailme@dpagin.net>
>To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>Subject: [PLUG] Tabs
>Reply-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>
>Question for Perl and/or PHP people: How could I get PHP to honor the \t 
>in a text output from a Perl script?
>
>In PHP I'm using shell_exec() to call the Perl script and nl2br() to 
>convert \n to <br />.  The \t is totally ignored.  I don't care if the 
>final output is text or HTML.  Help?


Here is an example:

cat >test.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "This is a tab\tthat is embedded\n";


cat >test.php
<?PHP
$std_in=fopen("php://stdin","r");
$buffer=fread($std_in,32767);
$tab_delim=split("\t",$buffer);
echo "buffer = $buffer\n";
foreach($tab_delim as $key=>$value) {
  echo "line $key = $value\n";
}
?>


then enter:
perl test.pl | php test.php


and you will see:
buffer = This is a tab  that is embedded

line 0 = This is a tab
line 1 = that is embedded



Bill
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