\n Won't Work

[Anon]

Hello,

Here's the code I'm using :

<?php

$dirPath = opendir(´images/march´);

while (($file = readdir($dirPath)) != false) {
if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
printf("$file \n");
}
}
?>

Basically, what it's supposed to do is grab all the file names in the directory, and report them back. It does this, but doesn't insert the \n as I'd like it to. I'm sure it's a syntax problem, but I can't figure it out.

Thanks!

[Anon]

I've had problems using printf() with the newline character as well. Try the following:

echo "$file \n";

I've found that the echo statement handles newlines quite well.

[Anon]

I tried Ralph's suggestion, and that didn't work. I also noticed a problem in my original code, so I made the following change :

printf("Filename is %s \n", $file);

This, too, does not work, but I'm relatively confident that it should!

[Anon]

Try this, because you're trying to have a line-break in HTML instead of the source code:

echo "$file <br>\n";

Good luck!

Dr. B

[Anon]

oops! I messed up my original code snippet. It should read

echo "$file <br>";

When I use echo I use the <br> tag instead of the newline character.

thanks for pointing it out Dr. B!