TOtally noob question

[teguh123]

How do we print a newline?

echo '\n';

?

Doesn't seem to work in html

[Flyier]

You can use echo "<br/>"; instad of \n.

[NogDog]

The "\n" is only a newline character when used within a double-quoted string.

Various ways to get a newline in a string:

echo "Line one\nLine two";

echo 'Line one
line two';

echo <<<EOD
Line one
Line two
EOD;

echo 'Line one' . "\n" . 'Line two';

[NogDog]

Flyier wrote:

You can use echo "<br/>"; instad of \n.

That may be what the original poster is after. The "<br/>" is only relevant with regard to HTML output, but would be useless for plain text output, CSV output, etc.; and you might want both ("<br>\n") when you use it anyway (to keep the HTML source from being one run-on line). However, using a <br> is more often than not a poor substitute for what should really be more semantically meaningful HTML mark-up (<p>, <li>, etc.).

[teguh123]

THANKS