new line problem

Anon

Hi - I am using $fputs to write out strings to a text file like this:

if ($success= fopen("C:\actdata.txt",a)) {
$textout=$name . "\n";
fputs($success,$textout);
}

When I view the output in Notepad the lines do not start on a new line, but when I view the file in Word 97 they do.

Anyone know why this is?

How do I write out the text to notepad correctly?

Cheers, Tony

Anon

Hi Tony,

try to use \r\n instead of \n.
This worked fine for me.

Bye
Rene

Anon

Hi - I tried it and the output is much tidier - thanks!

However I now get little squares in the text at the end of each word. The 'squares' only shows in Notepad. In Word 97 the text wraps like this:

Consumables
Candles
Altar Candles

Any ideas why the text doesn't behave like this in Notepad?

Thanks, Tony.

Anon

Hmm, I think that there are still some characters which notepad cant display.
If it is so, Notepad shows this squares.
Put the \r\n directly behind your text (echo "Candles\r\n"😉
It seems that Word just ignores this chars.

If it still does not work, post a few lines of this code.

Bye
René