Read and print with \t in PHP

Question

I'm opening a TXT file in PHP and want to read the lines of it one by one.

I'm using fgets() .

The problem is that the output is ignoring the tabulations ("\t") in the original file, which is not what I want.

There is some way to force PHP to don't ignore 'em?

My code:

$file = fopen("file.txt", "r") or die("<br><br>Error.");
while (!feof($file)) {
    $string = fgets($file, 4096);
    echo "<br> " . $string;
}

use something like `preg_replace` or `str_replace` to turn the `\t` into something that's more useful to you, such as (4 spaces) — Martin, Jul 19 '16 at 19:52
php doesn't change or ignore the data. The problem must be somewhere else. — Evert, Jul 19 '16 at 19:52
PHP is **NOT** ignoring anything, your web browser is. Press `Ctrl + u` to see the source code. — MonkeyZeus, Jul 19 '16 at 19:52
Possible duplicate of [Multiple Spaces Between Words in HTML without ](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4503001/multiple-spaces-between-words-in-html-without-nbsp) or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1571648/html-tab-space-instead-of-multiple-non-breaking-spaces-nbsp — chris85, Jul 19 '16 at 19:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '16 at 19:56

Your (probably everyone's for that matter) web browser is ignoring the tabs.

Try this:

$file = fopen("file.txt", "r") or die("<br><br>Error.");
echo '<pre>'
while (!feof($file)) {
    $string = fgets($file, 4096);
    echo "\n" . htmlentities($string);
}
echo '</pre>';

or

$file = fopen("file.txt", "r") or die("<br><br>Error.");
echo '<textarea>'
while (!feof($file)) {
    $string = fgets($file, 4096);
    echo "\n" . htmlentities($string);
}
echo '</textarea>';

Read and print with \t in PHP

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