Newline (\n) in printf doesn't work?
Michael
I see that PHP supports the C printf function, and I've seen examples
like printf("Hello world!\n"); however the newline character \n
doesn't work - i.e., it does not generate an HTML <br>, which I would
have expected - what it does is generate a newline in the html
generated text, but since the browser ignores blank lines, this
feature appears useless for most applications.
>From this arises two questions:
1. I am misunderstanding something?
2. What is the prescribed way of inserting a newline into a PHP
string? (Could it be printf("Hello world! <br>") ?
Thanks,
M. McDonnell
Jerry Stuckle
It works fine. It generates a nl character, just as you asked it to.
Look at your source code - you'll see the line break.
If you want an HTML <br> or xthtml <br />, you need to code them
yourself. PHP does not convert for you.
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Michael
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Jerry,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I looked at the source code, but no <br>,
all I get is a new line of white space, which as we know is ignored by
the browser.
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"Michael" <MichaelD...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Yes.
More properly
printf("Hello world! <br>\r\n");
so you get a line break in the source HTML as well, making it easier to
read.
or, since you are not actually formatting anything:
print("Hello world! <br>\r\n");
or even
echo "Hello world! <br>\r\n";
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Chris Hope
> On May 27, 8:05 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Michael wrote:
>> > I'm new to PHP.
>>
>> > I see that PHP supports the C printf function, and I've seen
>> > examples like printf("Hello world!\n"); however the newline
>> > character \n doesn't work - i.e., it does not generate an HTML
>> > <br>, which I would have expected - what it does is generate a
>> > newline in the html generated text, but since the browser ignores
>> > blank lines, this feature appears useless for most applications.
>>
>> >>From this arises two questions:
>>
>> > 1. I am misunderstanding something?
>>
>> > 2. What is the prescribed way of inserting a newline into a PHP
>> > string? (Could it be printf("Hello world! <br>") ?
>>
>> It works fine. It generates a nl character, just as you asked it to.
>> Look at your source code - you'll see the butline break.
>>
>> If you want an HTML <br> or xthtml <br />, you need to code them
>> yourself. PHP does not convert for you.
>
> Thanks for your reply. Yes, I looked at the source code, but no <br>,
> all I get is a new line of white space, which as we know is ignored by
> the browser.
That's correct. You didn't ask PHP to write a <br> tag. You asked PHP to
write a newline break, which is exactly what it did.
So yes, your question 2) is what you would need to do, although your
question should read like this:
2. What is the prescribed way of inserting an *html* *newline* break*
*tag* into a PHP string? (Could it be printf("Hello world! <br>") ?
There is also the nl2br() function which converts "\n" to "<br />\n"
should you need to automatically need to do this with a string.
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Michael
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Thank you all for your help. I now understand all of this a bit
better.
Tim Roberts
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>I'm new to PHP.
>
>I see that PHP supports the C printf function, and I've seen examples
>like printf("Hello world!\n"); however the newline character \n
>doesn't work - i.e., it does not generate an HTML <br>, which I would
>have expected - what it does is generate a newline in the html
>generated text, but since the browser ignores blank lines, this
>feature appears useless for most applications.
What about <pre> or <textarea> regions? What if I care about the way my
generated HTML looks, and I want things to line up neatly?
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Jerry Stuckle
The first rule of HTML is - make your layout fluid! Allow it to adjust
to the size of the user's browser window.
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Tim Roberts
>Tim Roberts wrote:
>> Michael <MichaelD...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> I'm new to PHP.
>>>
>>> I see that PHP supports the C printf function, and I've seen examples
>>> like printf("Hello world!\n"); however the newline character \n
>>> doesn't work - i.e., it does not generate an HTML <br>, which I would
>>> have expected - what it does is generate a newline in the html
>>> generated text, but since the browser ignores blank lines, this
>>> feature appears useless for most applications.
>>
>> What about <pre> or <textarea> regions? What if I care about the way my
>> generated HTML looks, and I want things to line up neatly?
>
>The first rule of HTML is - make your layout fluid! Allow it to adjust
>to the size of the user's browser window.
What I meant is, "what if I want my HTML code to line up neatly?" For
example:
<select name="City">
<option>Albany</option>
<option>Portland</option>
<option>Salem</option>
<option>Tigard</option>
</select>
The browser would be perfectly happy with one immensely long line, of
course, but it's not unreasonable for me to want the HTML to look like the
above, and that requires printing \n newlines.
Jerry Stuckle
What does this have to do with converting newline characters to <br>?
Newline characters will affect the generated html, <br> won't.
But if you really want to bloat your html with lots of extra white
space, increasing the amount of bandwidth required to load your pages
and slow down your customers, by all means, do it.
Now I'm not suggesting you have no formatting - but you can overdo it, also.
Tim Roberts
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>What does this have to do with converting newline characters to <br>?
>Newline characters will affect the generated html, <br> won't.
Nothing. That's not what this thread was about. The original poster
opined that the ability to print \n newlines was useless. I disagreed.
Jerry Stuckle
> Jerry Stuckle <jstu...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> What does this have to do with converting newline characters to <br>?
>> Newline characters will affect the generated html, <br> won't.
>
> Nothing. That's not what this thread was about. The original poster
> opined that the ability to print \n newlines was useless. I disagreed.
Well, I can agree with him that with html, \n newlines are useless.
But you cut off the more important part of my post. Just to remind you,
it was:
<quote>
But if you really want to bloat your html with lots of extra white
space, increasing the amount of bandwidth required to load your pages
and slow down your customers, by all means, do it.
Now I'm not suggesting you have no formatting - but you can overdo it,
also.
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