On Wed, August 24, 2005 8:33 am, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I seem to be having trouble with \n and \r in variables. I write my > code on a linux box, and the server is linux. So I should always have > \n\r, no? Is there a way the I could print $variable; and have it show > me the /n and /r 's ? I tried with a srt_replace() on /n and on /r, > but they do not get replaced. I also tried escaping the backslash, > then double escaping that as was suggested somewhere in the > php.net/manual, then triple escaping! Windows uses \r\n Linux uses \n Mac uses \r Depending on what tools you use to read/write/create the files, and where the data comes from, it's possible that you have any of those formats. This is especially true of FORM data from a TEXTAREA. I frequently do this: $text = $_POST['text']; $text = str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $text); $text = str_replace("\r", "\n", $text); //Now I *know* it's in Linux newline format. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php