writing files with notepad compatible endlines

[gamblingp]

I can't seem to make files with fwrite() which display correctly in notepad. They work fine in wordpad or UltraEdit32. I'm writing in text mode, and using a linefeed as my endline. I opened up a properly formatted .txt in a hex editor and saw that it used 0D 0A as it's endline which translates to a carriage return followed by a linefeed. I've tried using \r\n, \n, and \r but they do not work either. Notepad displays them as a musical note symbol.

fwrite($file, "$d[$i],$x[$i],$y[$i]\r\n") or die("failed to write to file");

Anyone know how to write an endline properly with fwrite() to display properly in notepad?

[juschillinnow]

that's the correct way to do it. I'm almost positive.

[benkillin]

that is the way to do it... dont know why it wont work with you, try this instead:

fwrite($file, "$d[$i],$x[$i],$y[$i]"."\r\n") or die("failed to write to file");

[gamblingp]

I got it working now. Had to change the fopen to be binary and not text.

Here's a quote from the php manual which I didn't notice the first time I checked
"If you do not specify the 'b' flag when working with binary files, you will experience strange problems with your data, including broken image files and strange problems with \r\n characters.

It is strongly recommended that you always use the 'b' flag when opening files with fopen(). "

Here is my working code:

$file = fopen($filename, "wb") or die("failed to open $filename");
fwrite($file, "\r\n$rowLabel[$i],$c1[$i],$c2[$i]") or die("failed to write row to file");

Note: I only changed the endline to the beginning of the statement for formatting reasons.

[juschillinnow]

if the formatting reason is because it leaves spaces you can use the TRIM function to take out all whitespaces leftover from the \r\n