escape sequence

[jmantra]

Hi I have a small script that takes a user's email address and adds it to a text file, but I want it to write each e-mail on a new line I tried this code with no results:

$file = fopen("/var/lists/test","a+");
fwrite($file, $_POST["email"] . ' ' \n); 
fclose($file);

From what I understood the "\n" writes to a new line, am I missing something here?

[laserlight]

Yes, "\n" is a newline. However, you wrote \n instead of "\n".

[NogDog]

Also, note that it's only a newline within double-quotes:

echo "\n";  // outputs a newline
echo '\n';  // outputs a back-slash followed by an "n"