[SOLVED] echo \n

[freebsdntu]

I have tried echo 'Hello World!\n', and the out put is like this:

Hello World\n

I don't know why it is like this.

[juapo2]

Hi,

 

Im glad to help you, and you should take away your "\n" thats why it is appearing, just leave it:

echo 'Hello World!'

 

Im glad for helping you,

 

if i had solved your problem, mark this thread as solved please

[PC Nerd]

the main reason is that you need double quotes to evaluate the caharacters.  if you user "hello world \n"  that will work because it will pringt a new line isntead of a "\" and a "n"

 

gdlk

[freebsdntu]

Hi,

 

Im glad to help you, and you should take away your "\n" thats why it is appearing, just leave it:

echo 'Hello World!'

 

Im glad for helping you,

 

if i had solved your problem, mark this thread as solved please

Thank you for your help, but the problem is not solved, i have a series of echo statements, if I remove \n, then there won't be carriage returns.

[freebsdntu]

the main reason is that you need double quotes to evaluate the caharacters.  if you user "hello world \n"  that will work because it will pringt a new line isntead of a "\" and a "n"

 

gdlk

This sounds rationale, but what if I do it like this : 'Hello Word"\n"', it still does not work.

I guess I need to check with the escape characters. Since I would have "" symbols inside "" of echo

[Zane]

This sounds rationale, but what if I do it like this : 'Hello Word"\n"', it still does not work.

 

because you need to concat those

'Hello World' . "\n"

[Kingy]

just put the whole line is double quotation marks..

 

echo "First Line\nSecond Line\nThird Line\n";

[Daniel0]

You can also get the newline depending on the system (UNIX: \n - Windows: \r\n - Mac: \r) from the constant PHP_EOL.

<?php
echo 'Something' . PHP_EOL;
?>

[kenrbnsn]

If you are expecting a line break to be displayed on the screen, you need to use the "<br>" tag. Browsers do not see the "\n", "\r" or "\r\n" line break characters as line breaks.

 

Ken

[freebsdntu]

Thank you for all your inputs, I think I have got it. Thank you very much!