Posted by sk on 10/06/06 15:03

tried following with same results.... no new line

$foo = 2;
echo "foo is $foo"; // this prints: foo is 2
echo 'foo is $foo'; // this prints: foo is $foo
echo "foo is $foo\n\r"; // this prints: foo is 2 (with a new-line)
echo 'foo is $foo\n'; // this prints: foo is $foo\n

Norman Peelman wrote:

> <petersprc@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1160010036.756728.4270@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
>>Can you paste the code that isn't working? The zend.com tutorial is
>>exactly right.
>>
>>sk wrote:
>>
>>>According to zend.com
>>>
>>>Double and single quoted strings are handled differently by PHP. Double
>>>quoted strings are interpreted while single quoted strings are treated
>>>exactly as written. For example:
>>>
>>>$foo = 2;
>>>echo "foo is $foo"; // this prints: foo is 2
>>>echo 'foo is $foo'; // this prints: foo is $foo
>>>echo "foo is $foo\n"; // this prints: foo is 2 (with a new-line)
>>>echo 'foo is $foo\n'; // this prints: foo is $foo\n
>>>
>>>I can not get this to work.
>>
>
> Sometimes you must add \r to it like so:
>
> echo "foo is $foo\n\r";
>
> Norm
>
>

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