Hi You can try something like this: <?php
ob_start(); system('ls', $retval); $raw = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); $arr = explode(chr(10),$raw); print_r($arr); it gives you a array back whit the lines 2011/1/26 Donovan Brooke <li...@euca.us> > Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > >> Dear list - >> >> I have a program with the following statement: $out = system('ls -l', >> $retval); The output is a string. How do I format the output to be in >> the Linux format, that is in columns. I cannot think of a way to use >> explode to do it. >> >> Advice and comments, please. >> >> Thanks >> >> Ethan >> >> MySQL 5.1 PHP 5.3.3-6 Linux [Debian (sid)] >> > > > Something like?: > > print "<pre>"; > > $out = system('ls -l', $retval); > print "</pre>"; > > > Donovan > > > -- > D Brooke > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >