Iterate over each line in a string in PHP

Question

I have a form that allows the user to either upload a text file or copy/paste the contents of the file into a textarea. I can easily differentiate between the two and put wh

Answer 1

If you need to handle newlines in diferent systems you can simply use the PHP predefined constant PHP_EOL (http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.constants.php) and simply use explode to avoid the overhead of the regular expression engine.

$lines = explode(PHP_EOL, $subject);