Simple Newbie Question

[spe825]

I almost feel stupid asking this, but I am learning PHP from a book and for some reason it is not telling me what the "\n" syntax is used for in somthing such as:

echo "$a <BR> \n";

What is it exactly?

Thanks,
Jason

[Anon]

\n means a New Line
so after the <br> it puts a return after it