new line writing to file

[nikko50]

Hi all. I have a file called "DEN" on my server. I'm writing to it and can't seem to get the new line to work. Everything prints on one line with a weird charecter where the new line should end.

$stringData = "Floppy Jalopy\n";

fwrite($fh, $stringData);

$stringData = "Pointy Pinto\n";

fwrite($fh, $stringData);

fclose($fh);

[leatherback]

I presume you are writing on a windows box; under unix you need only the newline (\n) under widows you also need a cariage return, I think: \n\r

[laserlight]

More like \r\n, but if you are not opening in binary mode \n should still work as usual, methinks.

[leatherback]

laserlight wrote:

More like \r\n, but if you are not opening in binary mode \n should still work as usual, methinks.

thx laser

[Weedpacket]

leatherback wrote:

I presume you are writing on a windows box

...and you're viewing the file in Notepad, which is the only text editor on the planet that doesn't recognise \n as a linebreak. 🙂

[leatherback]

Weedpacket wrote:

...and you're viewing the file in Notepad, which is the only text editor on the planet that doesn't recognise \n as a linebreak. 🙂

hehe, and incidentally also the quickest to display small txt files in windows. I have it set up as default viewer for any txt file type I use, and run into the prolem constantly, when looking at my php which uses only \n

[Weedpacket]

leatherback wrote:

hehe, and incidentally also the quickest to display small txt files in windows.

Not on my Windows box 🙂. Can you still download PFE?

[leatherback]

ehm.. PFE??

[Weedpacket]

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/
And its Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_File_Editor

[leatherback]

hm.. never ran into that. Might actually have a play, even though the latest update was in 1999. Then again: If it ain't broke, why fix it!?