I am a beginner of php. A simple question here is why echo "\n" doesn't work in my enviornment? I installed apachy2 php5 in windows xp system.
Anybody can let me know?
Thank you in advance,
Jun

Can you be more specific? What happens when you do it? Do you see the PHP source? Also, you know you're only outputting a newline character, so you woulnd't be able to see it except when viewing source in the browser.

Regards,
Rich

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Hi Rich,

Thank you for your reply.

So far as i know \n should print following characters in a new line, but if I type something like
echo "try \\n as change line \n to see if \n worked or not\n<br>";
the output in my IE browser is
try \n as change line to see if worked or not

At the same time, i noticed that \n works if put php code within <pre></pre> tag.

I guess I should do something in php.ini or some where else to allow html accept \n.

Do you have any idea?

Thanks,
Jun

That isn't PHP that's misbehaving. Newline characters are not rendered as line breaks by your browser. That's why you see line breaks when the <pre> tag is used. For that you want the PHP function nl2br() (new line to break).

Try this:

echo nl2br("try \\n as change line \n to see if \n worked or not\n");

http://www.php.net/nl2br

HTH!

Regards,
Rich

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Beautiful! Thank you very much Rich,Jun