'\n' doesn't perform what I expected.

[Dollar]

Hi I got some unexpected result from using \n (new line)
if I type

echo "Shopping List.\n";
echo "Wine.\n";
echo"Beer.";

I suppose to get

Shopping List.
Wine.
Beer.

as a result but I got

Shopping List. Wine. Beer.

It seem'\n' performs an action whitespace instead of jump to new line.
what happened!!! Is there anything wrong with my php or my code???

[ceanth]

Im getting the same problem:

echo "You are logged in as \n";

doesnt give me a new line, anyone know why?

[ceanth]

Ok i worked it out, used:

echo "You are logged in as: <BR>";

and it works like a treat 🙂

[evo4ever]

"\n" Gives a new line in your source code, not the actual HTML output. As ceanth found out, use <br/> to make a new line in HTML output. If you want to make your source code readable, put \n after the last character in your string.

[______]

Originally posted by evo4ever
"\n" Gives a new line in your source code, not the actual HTML output. As ceanth found out, use <br/> to make a new line in HTML output. If you want to make your source code readable, put \n after the last character in your string.

A '\n' GIVES a newline in the HTML Output! But not in the interpreted browserview, as you already stated. 🙂

And you have to take into account that UNIX, Windoof and Mac users have different 'newline's (and CR) to do a real newline.

Ever seen the strange boxes at the end of a textfile? They're because Windows, Mac and Unix use either \r\n','\n' or '\r' (don't remember which one uses what exactly...), could also be '\n\r'... 😃

This can lead to funny side-effects when using DBs...