Re: no newline after "?>" in the resulting HTML

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On Sat, March 18, 2006 12:36 pm, Rostislav Krasny wrote:
>  <p>Hello World</p>
>  </body>

>  <p>Hello World</p></body>

> Why there is no newline afer " <p>Hello World</p>" ?
> Is it a PHP bug or the tutorial should be updated?

The tutorial is imprecise, and glosses over this detail.

For very good reasons, ?>[newline] ignores the trailing [newline]
character.

If you want the newline, you should do:

<?php
  echo "<p>Hello World</p>\n";
?>

As for WHY the [newline] after ?> is ignored, it just turns out that
there are more times when you want it that way than the other, *AND*
it's trivial to insert a \n into your output, *AND* it would be very
hard to come up with a way to make the newline NOT appear if the
default was to have it appear, *AND* a *TON* of things would go wrong
if the extra newline appeared where you don't want it, but it's pretty
unimportant if a newline is missing at that point in the tutorial and
in most real-world cases (IE, HTML output) where you have ?>[newline]

It's not a bug ; It's a feature

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