Problem with in_array

[litebearer]

I can't seem to understand why in_array is NOT finding the 'needle'.

 

php file:

<?PHP
$search = "WS11";
$valid_codes = file("outcode2.txt");
if(in_array($search, $valid_codes)){
echo "yes";
}else{
echo "No";
}
echo $search . "<hr>";
echo "<PRE>";
print_r($valid_codes);
echo "</pre>";
?>

 

outcode2.txt:

WS10
WS11
WS12
WS13
WS14
WS15

 

WS11 is in the outcode2.txt

It is not an issue of case.

Perhaps my old eyes just keep missing the problem.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[premiso]

My bet would be the "\n" or linebreak after each item. If i remember right, file does not trim them out.

 

$valid_codes = file("outcode2.txt");
array_walk($valid_codes, 'trim');

 

Should trim out the line breaks. Another way to do it is read in the file with file_get_contents and then use explode. If you want to find out if there really is an extra character, use var_dump on the $valid_codes and it should tell you.

[litebearer]

Thank you! That is/was the problem. I had always presumed that file() returned an array using the newline as the delimiter (and did NOT include the newline as part of the array elements).

 

Thank you again!!!