Here's an easy one

[skiflyer]

I'm outputting to a text file... I need a newline at the end of my line..

I've tried..

fputs ("blah\n"
fputs ($variable."\n"
fputs ($variable.'\n');

and then all those with fwrite... no success... any advice?

I jess need a new line man! Never seen this problem... my lines I'm grabbing from a text file with the newline included are doing dandy when I rewrite them to the newfile.

IIS server, PHP 4.02.whatever, NT Box.

-Rob

 

[SPYDERIX]

Hi,

Use this:

<?php

$fp = fopen(&quot;text_file.txt&quot;, &quot;a&quot;);
fwrite($fp, &quot;blah\n$variable\n$variable2\n&quot;);

?>

You could also do a new fwrite for everything too if you want.

Hope this helps!

http://www.spyderix-designz.com

 

[skiflyer]

That's actually the same as what I've been doing...

reads fine in wordpad... emacs and notepad both have funny little boxes instead of the newline.

-Rob

Any other advice?

 

[skiflyer]

I've now additionally tried appending chr(12) & chr(13) to the end of my variables and gotten the same result.

I'm baffled, never run across this with PHP before, I'm assuming it has something to do with the way IIS4 and PHP are working together... the odd thing to me is that I also read in variables from a text file which have a newline on the end of them, and they write out with the newline in tact...

my workaround will simply be to load the variables into a text file and read them out... but that's cheap and alot more maintenance than I want, so I'm still looking for an answer.

-Rob

 

[4x4uk]

I had a similar problem where newline would sometimes work and othertimes not I couldn'tunderstand why, but I put the newline at the start instead of the end and it seems to work OK

fputs ("\nblah");
fputs ("\n"$variable.);
fputs ('\n'$variable.);

Ian

 

[sleipnir214]

"\n" is the Unix way of denoting a new line in a file.

"\r\n" is the DOS way of doing the same.

If the file uses "\n" as its newline designator, and the file is opened on a Win32 box, unless the editor is bright enough to recognize that "\n" is a possible line end sequence, you'll get weird stuff to the screen.

Notepad I expected to react badly. I'm suprised that emacs did, too.
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