Saving data on a file issue

PHP
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Hello

I have this

$data=“17.2-6.0-69.0”

which is extracted from a server log

When I save this $data in a file using
file_put_contents(“data”, "$data
",FILE_APPEND);

In my data file I have lines like these
^[0;10m^[39;49m^[0;10m17.2^[0;10m^[39;49m-^[0;10m^[39;49m^[0;10m6.0^[0;10m^[39;49m-^[0;10m^[39;49m^[0;10m69.0^[0;10m^[39;49m

? which could be the cause

Thank you

2

At a guess, I’d say this is a character encoding issue (these are commonly seen if you transfer between Linux and Windows systems).
Have a look into http://uk.php.net/mb_convert_encoding.

3

Still no solution , really lost.

4

Are the odd characters being introduced from the log read or the file_put_contents?

Have you checked that data doesn’t contain any hidden characters (which come from character encoding differences)? It looks to me like the characters you’re seeing (^[0;10m^[39;49m) represent whitespace in the string, but without having access to the specifics of your problem, such as server setup, log file type, …, I can’t help any further.

5

before executing this
file_put_contents(“data”, "$data
",FILE_APPEND);

I echo the data using this
echo “-$data-”;
and I receive this

-17.2-6.0-69.0-

which is correct .
If I save it on file , is all messed up .

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