missing first space when echo file

[etxnreg]

Hi,

I have strange behavior.

When I echo a file and the line have a space in the beginning of the line, the space is removed.

Could somebody explain why?

How should I solve it?

 

//Niklas

$filename="/tmp/display.cfg";
$file=fopen($filename,"r") or die("couldn't create file");

while (!feof($file)){
$line = fgets($file,5000);
echo "$line <br>"; }
fclose($file);

 

 

[rajivgonsalves]

if you seeing it in the browser it will be remove (not really actually it won't be displayed see your view source), another work around is using the pre tag (preformatted text)....

 

 

$filename="/tmp/display.cfg";
$file=fopen($filename,"r") or die("couldn't create file");
print "<pre>";
while (!feof($file)){
$line = fgets($file,5000);
echo "$line <br>"; }
fclose($file);
print "</pre>";

[Psycho]

You should also add a \n to each line you echo out to preserve the line breaks in the code. Otherwise it makes it very hard to review the output. Also, PRE may cause some unwanted results. So, the other option is to replace all the spaces with non-breaking spaces. I also decided to use file() to read the file into an array.

 

$filename="/tmp/display.cfg";
$linesAry = file($filename) or die("couldn't read file");

foreach ($linesAry as $line)
{
    echo str_replace(' ', ' ', $line) . "<br>\n";
}

[rarebit]

It's really a HTML issue, all multiple spaces (etc) will be displayed as a single space, it's the HTML way, i'd suggest something like mjdamato but expand it to include tabs (e.g. replace with 4 non breaking spaces).