Phantom "\n" echoed on page

[irbk]

I'm looping through the following code
*****Start Code*****
echo '<tr>
<td colspan="3">
<span class="style13">'. $row['title'] . '</span>
<span class="style16"><BR>' . $row['content'] . '
<a href="../newsletter" target="_blank">[more]</a>
</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">
<span class="style21">
<img src="../images/slice_07.gif" width="599" height="10">
</span>
</td>
</tr>\n';

It works fine, loops through and prints out everything right, but I keep getting "\n" at the top of the page for every record it loops through. Can't figure out why. Any help would be much appreshated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[sleipnir214]

That would be this part of your string:

</tr>\n';

You're using a single-quoted string, and single-quoted strings are not interpolated. Where:

print "\n";

will output a newline (because of double-quoted string interpolation) this:

print '\n';

will only output the literal characters "[backslash][n]".



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[sleipnir214]

The difference in the behavior of single- and double-quoted strings is documented in the PHP online manual section on Strings



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[irbk]

That's weird because I've used a '\n'; before and never had an issue with it. Oh well, that's what did the trick.
Thanks!

 

[sleipnir214]

Check carefully.

You'll find it was either "\n" or the literal '\n' is in th e output but unnoticed.



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[irbk]

Probally is there but didn't notice it. Consider my lesson learned "\n;" from now on it is!