Read data row by row from textarea

[s.alpaslan]

I want to copy the phone numbers into the text area and add them to the database by reading row by row. textarea does not contain html elements and how should I read these rows row by row?
( I need server side )

[Hyperbytes]

If you can identify what the lines are terminated with (i.e. CRLF etc) then you can use the split() function to break them into an array. Any editor that can show hex codes will reveal the appropriate ascii codes

[Hyperbytes]

see

Split(php explode) by new line in server connect

While I wait to see if it can be done from Core I created a custom formatter for this. I used preg_split instead of the regular explode as I want to catch all cases (\n and \r\n). @mebeingken function formatter_splitme($val) { return preg_split('/\n|\r\n?/', $val); } [image]

and

Split a string on line feed (Hex 0a)

I need to build a text processing system which extracts certain information from a string pasted in from a third part source The lines are delimited with a linefeed (decimal 10 hex 0a) I would like to use the split() function but need to specify a linefeed within the split() function as the delimiter Any one got an idea how to do that?

[s.alpaslan]

thanks Brian .. I will try custom formatter

function formatter_splitme($val) {
return preg_split('/\n|\r\n?/', $val);
}