writing to a file

[blue928]

I am writing to a file via a for loop. at the end of each entry, I have a \n character, but this is still not creating a new line in the text file.. here is a snipit of code...

fwrite("newfile.txt", $string[$x]."\n");

i've also tried \r, but that doesn't work either.. any thoughts?

blue

[knickerlas]

There is nothing wrong as far as I can see. When you say it's not creating a newline you don't meqan in your HTML do you? Cos you'd have to have "<br>\n"

What platform are you on?
Sometimes the your text file might have a weird char in place of the \n whaick means all is well.

Nick

[blue928]

nah, not an html file.. regular ol text file.. running win xp. when I open the txt file all of my entries, regardless of \n or \r are strung together and one looooooong string... it's broken.. I'll try fputs, but I doubt that will help.

blue

[Anon]

i knwo it sounds crazy, ut try this:

fwrite("newfile.txt", "$string[$x]\n");

Its' almost yours, but give it a try

[knickerlas]

So do you have odd chars in that string where you expect to find a line break? If you do then there's nothing wrong with you're text file.

Nick

[knickerlas]

Think I got it. Try \r\n or \n\r ( i think the first)

I'm pretty certain that'll do it.

Nick

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Windows is very aprticular about what you use for linebreaks, but it sometimes uses \r\n and sometimes only \n. Therefore windows sucks.

Try opening the file in a different editor. Notepad and wordpad treat linebreaks differently.