From: Operating system: All PHP version: 5.3.2 Package: Filesystem function related Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:fgetcsv should take empty string as an escape
Description: ------------ Currently fgetcsv() gives a warning if the escape parameter is set as an empty string (and the default is a backslash). I have some data that has backslashes in it and it's not an escape character. Even though most of the times fgetcsv() reads the data correctly, there is a little chance it will do it wrong if a backslash is the last character of a multiline cell, which is usually stored like this: "\\\line1 line2\\\" In order to fix that I supply chr(8) as an escape character because I know for sure the data does not have the character. And if I pass an empty string instead fgetcsv() will give a warning and refuse to read a line. I suggest that fgetcsv() does accept an empty string as an escape and do no escaping in that case, which is quite usual. For ex., a MySql statement "Load Data Infile ... Into Table" has it as "Escaped By None" to achieve the same result. Test script: --------------- if (!$Handle=fopen("sites.txt", "rb")) return false; print_r(fgetcsv($Handle, 0, "\t", '"', "")); fclose($Handle); Expected result: ---------------- array( ... ) - depends on the input file Actual result: -------------- Warning: fgetcsv(): escape must be character in ... -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51496&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51496&r=mysqlcfg