Any particular reason \n doesn't work?

[james0816]

I thought this was for advancing a line yes/no?

echo "HI!\n";
echo "BYE!";

should produce:

HI!
BYE!

instead i get:

HI! BYE!

 

[james0816]

trying to advance to the next in a text file.

So far I have used \n which is doing nothing
and even tried <br /> but that is writing <br /> to the text file.

 

[jpadie]

you need to be sure that you are viewing the file in a compatible reader. windows notepad likes "\r\n" whereas linux terminators are "\n".

use crimson editor or similar on a windows platform

or use the built in constant PHP_EOL as the line terminator

 

[james0816]

yep....the \r\n combo got it. thx

 

[dwlerwill]

best way i have found is

echo "<br>";

works well and easy to spot when making chages

David Lerwill
&quot;If at first you don't succeed go to the pub&quot;

 

[jpadie]

<br> is an html tag. the op was after a solution for text files.