String Line Parsing

How do you grab a line and delete a line

[HeadBut]

I have form text I need to parse and process. When I use sscanf to get a line it doesn't always act the same.

$data = sscanf($IncommingDATA, "%s\r");

My incomming data is like a file with tabs between items and return ending a line. The php functions don't seem to like this and often work backwards than I exspect?
Someone got a way to grab a line parse it and grab the next line?
Note: Text from a form not a file!

Thanks

[coopster]

When you say the text is from a form, do you mean a form <input> element, or maybe even a <textarea>?

[HeadBut]

Yea from a <textarea>

[coopster]

I'm not sure how you are getting tabs into a <textarea>...? Every time a user would hit the tab key, it should move them onto the next form element.

To parse the newlines in a text area, maybe you could use explode() [php.net] on the variable value for the textarea?

[HeadBut]

Tabs paste into a textarea with any other text... that's easy!

[coopster]

Ah yes, cut and paste. Well, explode it again on tabs then ;)