Line break not working when writing to text file in PHP

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JM4 picture JM4 · Nov 16, 2010 · Viewed 51.9k times · Source

I have the following test script:

<?php

$myFile = "testFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "Floppy Jalopy\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "Pointy Pinto\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

?>

when run however and opened usign Notepad, the data is returned in a single line without breaks as:

Floppy Jalopy(crazy box)Pointy Pinto(crazy box)

where i cant find the appropriate character for 'crazy box' but its a REALLY crazy box. WHAT GIVES!

Answer

Evan Mulawski picture Evan Mulawski · Nov 16, 2010

It is best to use PHP_EOL. This is cross-platform, so it automatically chooses the correct newline character(s) for the platform PHP is currently running on.

$stringData = "Floppy Jalopy" . PHP_EOL;

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