newlines help

[kkbbzzaa]

I'm trying to print a newline on the code (not HTML) so i tryied this:

echo "firstline\n secondline\n"; 

I supposed this will print something like

firstline
secondline

buy instead it prints just:

firstline\n secondline

any ideas why?

thanks

Mateo

[AndrewT]

How exactly are you executing this? Using SSH via PHP (CLI) that should work just fine.

[Elite]

I've always used \r\n for emails from PHP

HTH

[kkbbzzaa]

Ok, solved the problem.

My exact code was:

echo 'firstline\n secondline\n'; 

It seems the problem was the simple quotes.

Solution:

echo 'firstline'."\n".'secondline'."\n"; 

i'm confused about this but the problem is solved.

Thanks a lot

Mateo

[djn]

That's exactly what PHP is meant to do. Whatever you put between single quotes is considered a plain text string and used without modifications, while double quotes mark a string meant to be parsed for variables and special characters (like newlines and tabs).

[kkbbzzaa]

Thanks a lot, that is a cool thing to know!