Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/28/07 03:05

Michael wrote:
> I'm new to PHP.
>
> I see that PHP supports the C printf function, and I've seen examples
> like printf("Hello world!\n"); however the newline character \n
> doesn't work - i.e., it does not generate an HTML <br>, which I would
> have expected - what it does is generate a newline in the html
> generated text, but since the browser ignores blank lines, this
> feature appears useless for most applications.
>
>>From this arises two questions:
>
> 1. I am misunderstanding something?
>
> 2. What is the prescribed way of inserting a newline into a PHP
> string? (Could it be printf("Hello world! <br>") ?
>
> Thanks,
> M. McDonnell
>

It works fine. It generates a nl character, just as you asked it to.
Look at your source code - you'll see the line break.

If you want an HTML <br> or xthtml <br />, you need to code them
yourself. PHP does not convert for you.

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