newline "\n" not working.

[stevek]

Following code does not produce any new lines. Any ideas.

echo "This spans\multiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as well.";

[stevek]

Sorry ... spell checker corrected some.

echo "This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as well.";

[Alan Little]

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
stevek of comp.lang.php make plain:

> stevek wrote:
>> Following code does not produce any new lines. Any ideas.
>>
>> echo "This spans\multiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as
>> well.";
>
> Sorry ... spell checker corrected some.
>
> echo "This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as
> well.";

So, you're saying that this will output the literal string:

This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as well.

Is the bit you posted above a direct cut-and-paste from your script? If
not, check that you are in fact using double quotes and not single.

--
Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
http://www.phorm.com/

[rlee0001]

HTML ignores excess whitespace including newlines. Are you viewing the
page in the browser or viewing the source for the page? If you are
viewing the output in the browser window itself, is the text contained
in a PRE tag?

-Robert

[stevek]

<?php

$conn = @mysql_connect( "campania", "sfk", "" )
or die( "Sorry - could not connect to MySQL" );
echo "$conn\n";
//$rs1 = @mysql_create_db( $_REQUEST['db'] );

echo "This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as well.";

?>

produces......

Resource id #2 This spans multiple lines. The newlines will be output as
well.

[stevek]

Please see prior post.

[huckphin]

All you need to do is statement separator (the period (.)). Then put
your code in two statements such as this.

Line #5 is [echo "$conn\n";]
Line #5 needs to be corrected to [echo $conn."\n";]

LIne #7 is [echo "This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will
be\noutput as well."; ]
Line #7 needs to be
[echo "This spans"."\n"."multiple lines. The newlines will
be"."\n"."output as wee.";]

-Huck Finn

[Jerry Stuckle]

Steve,

No, you see Robert's post. He is correct. Check the page source.

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[Alan Little]

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
stevek of comp.lang.php make plain:

> Alan Little wrote:
>> Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
>> stevek of comp.lang.php make plain:
>>
>>> stevek wrote:
>>>> Following code does not produce any new lines. Any ideas.
>>>>
>>>> echo "This spans\multiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as
>>>> well.";
>>> Sorry ... spell checker corrected some.
>>>
>>> echo "This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as
>>> well.";
>>
>> So, you're saying that this will output the literal string:
>>
>> This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as well.
>>
>> Is the bit you posted above a direct cut-and-paste from your script?
>> If not, check that you are in fact using double quotes and not
>> single.
>>

> <?php
>
> $conn = @mysql_connect( "campania", "sfk", "" )
> or die( "Sorry - could not connect to MySQL" );
> echo "$conn\n";
> //$rs1 = @mysql_create_db( $_REQUEST['db'] );
> echo "This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as
> well."; ?>
>
> produces......
>
> Resource id #2 This spans multiple lines. The newlines will be output
> as well.

If you mean it outputs this in your browser (I don't see a shebang line,
so I assume you're not running this on the command line), then Robert
gave you the answer. A newline is equivalent to a space, in HTML.

[Rik]

Pure nonsense.

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

[Jaspreet]

stevek wrote:
> Following code does not produce any new lines. Any ideas.
>
> echo "This spans\multiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as well.";

You could probably do one of the following:

echo "Line 1<br>Line2";

OR

echo "<pre>Line 1\nLine2</pre>";

[Kevin Wells]

In message <SHu9g.57309$Fs1....@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>
stevek <ste...@somewhere.org> wrote:

>Sorry ... spell checker corrected some.
>
>echo "This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as well.";
>

Change \n to <br>

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http://kevsoft.co.uk/
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IF your nose runs and your feet smell it means your upside down.

[Jerry Stuckle]

Sorry, Huck. It will all come out in one line. Try it yourself in an HTML page.

[william...@gmail.com]

stevek pass it through nl2br...

<?php
echo nl2br("This spans\multiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as
well.");
?>

http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

[huckphin]

Yea, so my previous post was wrong. For some reason I was thinking
that stevek was referring to the output inside the source code to make
go to a new line. My mistake. Thank you for the correction, though.