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Removing newlines from ob_get_clean() output

ok i do have this following codes

<?php
ob_start();
?>
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<?php
$str = str_replace('\r\n','',trim(ob_get_clean()));
echo $str;
?>

and you can see how it works here http://codepad.org/DrOmyoY9

now what i want here is to remove the newlines from the stored output of the ob_get_clean().

I almost looked around the internet on how to remove newlines in the strings and that's the common and fastest method to remove the newlines aside from using the slowly preg_replace().

Why this happens? is this already a bug? or i just missed something?

Solution

  • \r\n is windows style, but if the user using linux or mac, it would be different . so best solution is:

    $str = str_replace(array("\r","\n"),'',trim(ob_get_clean()));