[RESOLVED] Line breaks inside DEFINE

[scrupul0us]

is there a way to enter line breaks into a DEFINE statement:

define ('linebreak','Line 1\nLine 2');

[laserlight]

Never tried, but shouldn't that be:

define ('linebreak', "Line 1\nLine 2");

[scrupul0us]

just ignores it as it would seem

[NogDog]

This works fine for me. Remember that (1) the "\n" escape character is a literal "n" within a single-quoted string literal, not a line break, and (2) in HTML output, linebreaks within normal text are treated as word spaces, so you either need to use a tag/CSS style that treats newlines a line breaks, or replace them with <br> tags:

<?php
define('LINE_BREAK', "this is\na test");
printf("<pre>%s</pre>", LINE_BREAK);
// or...
echo nl2br(LINE_BREAK);
?>

[scrupul0us]

echo nl2br(LINE_BREAK); 

worked great!

thanks

[bradgrafelman]

define('LINE_BREAK', "<br/>\n");
echo 'Hello' . LINE_BREAK . 'World!';