[RESOLVED] Outputting New Lines

fotofx

I need to write a file from PHP that can be read in Notepad.

Every time I write the file I am seeing \n instead of getting the return.

I have been using fwrite and terminating my lines with the \n

There must be a trick..

Any help appreciated..

Weedpacket

There must be some code. (And remember that Notepad is the only "text editor" out there that recognises only "\r\n" as a line break.)

fotofx

Weedpacket;10995015 wrote:
There must be some code. (And remember that Notepad is the only "text editor" out there that recognises only "\r\n" as a line break.)

Yup... Sure someone has a solution.

Weedpacket

There must be some code which you wrote and we need to see before we can say what's wrong with it.

fotofx

Here is the relevant part:

 
$n = '\n';
$File = "lead_maintain/process.txt";
 $Handle = fopen($File, 'a');
 $Data = $oID . " " . $XML_array['Response']['MFSTextID']['#text'] . $n;
 fwrite($Handle, $Data);
 $Data = $rpieces . $n . $n;
 fwrite($Handle, $Data);
 print "Data Written To Process";
 fclose($Handle);

Derokorian

As weedpacket said, notepad ONLY recognized \r\n second Strings

PHP.net wrote:
If the string is enclosed in double-quotes ("), PHP will interpret more escape sequences for special characters:
Escaped characters Sequence Meaning
\n linefeed (LF or 0x0A (10) in ASCII)
\r carriage return (CR or 0x0D (13) in ASCII)

fotofx

Hmmmm... Tried it with double quotes first.. This was a second (maybe 20th) try.

bradgrafelman

The manual page for [man]string[/man] makes it quite clear. Simple example:

echo 'Test1\nTest2';

output:

Test1\nTest2

echo "Test1\nTest2';

output:

Test1
Test2

As others have noted, Windows' native line delimiter consists of two characters - CRLF or carriage return followed by a line feed ("\r\n").

laserlight

Also, read the PHP manual on [man]fopen/man, especially the part discussing file open modes and line endings.

fotofx

Thanks everyone. The solution was:

$n = "\r\n";

Even though I am on a windows machine it requires the "\r" also to work.