Unable to remove end of line characters in PHP

Question

I am trying to remove the curse words from the comment entered by the user.The curse words are read from a text file, but the problem is that the words I read do not match the word it is meant to be. The apparent problem is the EOL Character(apparently), I used str_replace to replace all the EOL characters but it did not affect the outcome.

Here is my code:

while(!feof($myfile)){
    $array[$i]=fgets($myfile);
    $word=$array[$i];
    str_replace("\n","",$word,$count);
    echo $count;
    str_replace("\r","",$word,$cont);
    echo $cont;
    str_replace("\r\n","",$word,$con);
    echo $con;
    str_replace(" ","",$word,$co);
    echo $co;
    str_replace(PHP_EOL,"",$word,$c);
    echo $c;
    if($word==="anal")
    echo "afdsfdsa";
    $comment= str_replace($word,"****",$comment);

I downloaded the curse word text file from here I can't figure out what the problem is. Why aren't the two words matching?

Answer 1

Here's the revised code

$myfile = 'swearWords.txt';
$words=file_get_contents($myfile);
$array = explode(PHP_EOL,$words);
$comment = "f*** this s***";
$comment= str_replace($array,"Bleep",$comment);
echo $comment;

Output

​ Bleep this Bleep