How to write a raw \n to a textfile

Anon

Hi,

I tried searching the web for this, but could not find anything.

I'm trying to to this:

$line = "Hello!!\nHow are you?"

$fp = fopen("blah.txt", "w");
fwrite($fp, "$line\n");

but this ends up in:

Hello!!
How are you?

Is there any know workaround for this?

Thanx, ChaoZ

bfinucan

Hello,
Have you tried escaping the escape?

Hope I read you write...

Anon

yes i did, then it ends the line with \ and starts a new line

sp0rk

Get rid of the \n in fwrite($fp, "$line\n");

Anon

i cant, its a configuration file for a chatbox.. so it HAS to be in there (else my boss will kill me 😉 )

bfinucan

$line = "Hello!!\nHow are you?"
...
but this ends up in:

Hello!!
How are you?

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How do you need it to display?

sp0rk

Well, not like that is your real problem, anyway, but fwrite($fp, $line); is a ton more readable than what you had. If a linebreak ends up in there for some reason, something in the design needs a rethink.

I hope you end your $line with a semicolon. Your pasted(?) code in your first post doesn't.

Diffrences in how windows and various flavours of unix handles linebreaks might also haunt you. Go read up on that if you don't know what I'm talking about.

Anon

thanx, the actual real code is this:

$welcome = "Welkom op de ChatTV Chat Server\nVeel plezier bij 3FM";

fwrite($tempfile, "welcome \"$welcome\";\n");

the outputted line SHOULD look like this:

welcome = "Welkom op de ChatTV Chat Server\nVeel plezier bij 3FM";

but it looks like this

$welcome = "Welkom op de ChatTV Chat Server
Veel plezier bij 3FM";

Anon

it should be on one line:

Hello!!\nHow are you?

Anon

Did you try
"Hello!!\nHow are you?"

If all else fails, just write a <br> tag. If it's for a chatbox/tagboard style thing, that should work fine.