Re: [PHP] validating textarea using php

["Dan Joseph" <dmjoseph@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Usamah al-Amin <usamah1228@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> >  if(chop($comments) == "") { ... }   //hope that helps.
>
> Well, chop() is an alias of rtrim(), so it won't work here for, say,
> trimming control characters at the end of the string like line feeds.
>
> trim() is actually the best bit here.
>
> Regards,
> Usamah
>
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There is always using substr to mimic the Perl chomp() function.  Look thru
the comments on http://us.php.net/chop and you'll find a few different ways
of doing it.

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