Space being added while reading lines from a file

Hi,

When running the script given below, while displaying the contents of the file "user_names.txt" I see a space being added at the end of each line. Due to this my condition statement is showing an incorrect result. Could someone please help me to resolve this issue? I have tried running this script on both windows and linux servers.

Thanks.

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<?php
$uid = "user_1";

$uidFile = "user_names.txt";
$uidFileHeader = @fopen($uidFile, 'r');
if ($uidFileHeader) {
while (!feof($uidFileHeader)) {
$reserved_names = fgets($uidFileHeader);
print "res $reserved_names*<P>";
print "uid $uid*<P>";
if ($reserved_names == $uid){
print "Got one<P>";
}
}
fclose($uidFileHeader);
}
?>
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The output:

res user_1 *
uid user_1*
res user_2 *
uid user_1*
res user_3 *
uid user_1*
res *
uid user_1*

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Content of "user_names.txt"

user_1
user_2
user_3

 

you can use the trim function to remove the white spaces ...

 

Yeah, if you actually view the source of the outputted HTML, you'll probably not see a space before the <p> but in fact a new line (which is converted to a space by browsers). Hence the reason to use trim.

 

Thanks a lot. It worked.

I replaced the line "$reserved_names = fgets($uidFileHeader);" with "$reserved_names = trim(fgets($uidFileHeader));"