Yes Escape characters again!!

[dan_weir]

Can someone tell me why the \n will not work in the program below when run in IE (html)? We are trying to figure out how to use escape characters when executing in html. When we try we often get:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in E:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\var1.php on line 11

Thanks for any guidance for us newbies

<?php
$price = 3.95;
$tax_rate = 0.08;
$tax_amount = $price * $tax_rate;
$total_cost = $price + $tax_amount;

$username = 'dan_weir';
$domain = '@nobles.edu';

$email_address = $username . $domain;

print 'The tax is ' . $tax_amount . '.';
print "\n"; // this prints a line break
print 'The total cost is ' . $total_cost;
print "\n"; // this prints a line break
print $email_address;
?>

[rincewind456]

That code works perfectly.
Are you getting confused with an html linebreak <br>,

If you check the source of the html then the newlines appear where they are supposed to if you want the output on seperate lines then your code should be something like

print 'The tax is ' . $tax_amount . '.';  

print "\n<br>"; // this prints a line break and a newline 
print 'The total cost is ' . $total_cost;  

print "\n<br>"; // this prints a line break  and a newline
print $email_address;