create newlines when writing to a textfile

Anon

hello all

i'm writing to a textfile to generate an XML page, which later on is passed to a java servlet.

now I need to create linebreaks inside this XML file. But err... I don't know how.. I've tried with appending a \n at the end of the string I write to the file, but that didn't work.. can anybody tell me how to do it correctly, as this would save me alot of time.

TIA

Emanuel

Anon

What makes you so sure that \n is not working?
Don´t get fooled by some text editors, only because they are not capable of displaying it right especially Notepad or other WIN stuff. In HEX it is there!

Or do I get you wrong and your servlet cannot read it?

Fab

Anon

the problem is, that when I put a \n into the string, it gets displayed as \n, but not as linebreak (guess vi should display it linebreaks correctly).

that's how i've tried it:

$string = "<product>\n";
$fw = fwrite($fd, $buffer);
and this gave out:

<product>\n

instead of <product>|linebreak|

i'm pretty lost here..

.Emanuel

Anon

why don't you try

$string = "<product>";
$fw = fwrite($fd, $buffer);
$string = '0x0d';
$fw = fwrite($fd, $buffer);
$string = '0x0a';
$fw = fwrite($fd, $buffer);

[]'s

Dede
(SP/Brasil)

Anon

You should just use error_log() and not worry about it. Just call error_log for each line you want to output.

This is not the ideal way, but because you are having such a hard time, I would suggest it.

Anon

Try \r\n that's the 'standard' carriage return for text.

Binaries... ack! Who needs carriage returns in binary.

I think you're o'erworking yourself. What is it you're trying to do?

Michael

Anon

i've now done it the following way, which in my opinnion isn't really efficient, but well, it works anyways:

$headstring = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
$fw = fwrite($fd, "$headstring \n");
$fc = fclose($fd);
$fd = fopen("$userfile","a");
$headstring = '<!DOCTYPE product SYSTEM "/usr/local/dtd/product.dtd">';
$fw = fwrite($fd, "$headstring \n");

this way, the new lines are getting written correctly to the file. i just don't see why it doesn't work when you have the \n's directly inside of $headstring.

Emanuel