Problems writing \n to file

[eriksmoen]

Alright, this probably sounds stupid to most of you, but I am having a problem inserting a newline character into a file on a windows 2000 machine...

$filename = 'somefile.ini';
$fp = fopen($filename,'a');
while(list($key,$val) = each($userString)){
	$val = str_replace("/\\\\/","\\",$val);
	$val .="\n";
	fwrite($fp,$val,strlen($val));
}
fclose($fp);

anyhow, if anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong or a better way to do it, then thanks in advance.

Also...
I have also looked at parse_ini_file($filename), but the ini file contains pipes (|), so i get an error when it finds a pipe...

[Merve]

What problem are you having? Try the carriage return: \r

[mtimdog]

Or try inserting the newline character

$val .="\n";

[eriksmoen]

i've tried the \n, tried the \r tried \n\r, but still no line break.

$fp = fopen($filename,'a+');
while(list($key,$val) = each($userString)){
	$val = ereg_replace("[\\\\][\\\\]","\\\\",$val);
	fwrite($fp,"\n".$val);
}
fclose($fp);

when it saves to the .ini file, it creates small boxes instead of newlines...

[laserlight]

what about \r\n, since that is the Windows new line sequence?

[eriksmoen]

laserlight: thanks much.... crazy that \r\n works but not \n or \r or \n\r...

\r\n is the KEY!!! thanks much.