php fwrite

chrisleon

I am writing out a .txt file from a database, and I want it to write out a record and then do a new line, which I assumed and always knew it as \n. But when I do this, it places a rectangle type box, and does not do a new line. I am using a win32 platform of php, and everything else works fine ie. \t and such, but I would really like to find out what is going on. Any suggestions would be very helpful

rIkLuNd

Since you're using windows, then use \r\n instead of just \n. I think that it would work fine then!

chrisleon

it worked great, but why does it use different syntax?

rIkLuNd

I'm not really sure about this, but I think that \n is for Linux and \r\n is for Windows. I do not know why the syntax is different but hey, it's working! 😉

benkillin

its just the fact that the \n in php is a different acii charicter then the normal notepad \r\n, that \n will work in every app except notepad (winword, dreamweaver, etc...) its just notepad uses a different acii encoding then the linux/unix text editors.

or, so thats what I hear...

kevinsequeira

Line breaks are different in Windows and in Unix. A Unix linebreak is simply a newline character ('\n'), while a Windows linebreak is a carriage return and a newline character ('\r\n').

reg
kevin