Editing files

[Anon]

Hello.

I'm editing this file (copying from one file to another) and after PHP works it, it gets full of little squares in each line (near the \n). These are only visible in certain editors (edit plus shows them, notepad doesn't).

What is this and How can this be prevented ?

Thanks.

[Anon]

That's because you're using \r\n for new lines. Some editors recognize only \n for new lines, therefore it will show the \r as a square block. There's no real fix to this - it's just stupid differences between operating systems (Windows uses \r\n, Unix uses \n, and Mac uses \r...now we just need an OS that uses \n\r, j/k 😛 )

Diego

[Anon]

Thanks 🙂