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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 10:53:36 +0200
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To: Hamza Ahmad <office.hamzaahmad@gmail.com>, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Why am I unable to use 'readline_on_new_line()' on my
 windows machine?
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 5:51 PM Hamza Ahmad <office.hamzaahmad@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Internals,
> I am unable to call readline_on_new_line() function.
> I am posting this to internals to confirm whether it is a bug or an issue
> with docs.
> The manual suggests that this function is available on php 8.
> https://php.net/manual/en/function.readline-on-new-line.php
> However, when I invoke this in my script, it informs of calling an unknown
> function. Other readline functions, such as readline(),
> readline_read_history(), readline_write_history(), do work.
> I wrote to shell `var_dump(function_exists('readline_on_new_line'));`. It
> responded with `bool(false)`. I wrote,
> `var_dump(extension_loaded('readline'))`. It said, `bool(true)`.
> Note: my PHP version (PHP_VERSION) is 8.0.5.
> Any type of help will be appreciated.
> Kind regards
> Hamza Ahmad
>

Hi Hamza,

This function is only available if the HAVE_RL_ON_NEW_LINE feature is
available. I'm not sure whether the readline version on Windows doesn't
support this, or whether the flag just isn't set. Maybe Christoph can
comment on that?

Nikita

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