It seems the best way to do this would be a predefined constant. You'd just need to update the constant whenever you move to a new Operating System. Then, just always append the constant to your strings: //change for linux or windows define('CRNL',"\r\n); //define('CRNL',"\n); print "foobar".CRNL; -- Sincerely, A.J. Brown "Jake Gardner" <gardner.jake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:d8a4abc10509270740d95d6c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This is a stretch and I doubt you can do this very easily, but I was wondering if there is a way to define behaviors that happen throughout a script before execution for example if the OS is windows, all strings are terminated with \r\n, if Linux, then \n without adding addition ifs throughout the code. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php