opposite of \n ?

[sniffledog]

 

this is probably not the toughest question but i can't find the answer so hopefully one of you freaks knows the answer. when you echo text in php you use a \n to create a new line or paragraph break or what ever it's supposed to be called. the issue i'm having is when you echo a variable like:

 

<?

$var = "text";

echo "Variable = [ $var ]"

?>

 

the output displays a line break after the variable so it looks like:

 

Variable = [ text

]

 

does anyone know how to make php not display a line break after variables? is there an opposite of \n or something? either way any help is appreciated.

 

[phpQuestioner]

I just tested your code and I did not get a line break.

 

see what happens when you do this:

 

<?php
$var = "text";
echo "Variable = [";
echo "$var";
echo "]";
?>

 

also \n does not create physical line break in your html code; it only creates a line break in your source code,

but < br> does create a physical line break in your html code.

[effigy]

HTML has NOBR.

[sniffledog]

thank you both for your replies, the code provided by the phpQuestioner helped me figure out what was causing the line break in the output. the variable i was using was actually a command enclosed with back ticks like:

 

$var = `w | head -1 | cut -d" " -f13 | cut -d"," -f1`;

 

i changed that to:

 

$var = exec('w | head -1 | cut -d" " -f13 | cut -d"," -f1');

 

and the line break in the output went away. and again i thank you all.