In general, I try to think of single quotes as being literal and
double quotes as being interpreted.
In that case, we expect 'some line\t with a tab, a variable {$obj-
>member}, and a newline\n' to produce exactly:
some line\t with a tab, a variable {$obj->member}, and a newline\n
Yet, the same thing in double quotes:
some line with a tab, a variable foo, and a
newline
As a result, I use single quotes whenever I can. Otherwise, double.
Jeremy Mcentire
Ant Farmer
ZooToo LLC
On Oct 29, 2007, at 6:15 AM, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
On 10/29/07, Crayon Shin Chan <crayon.shin.chan.uk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sunday 28 October 2007, magoo wrote:
I have switched to using single quotes, and found out that
newline (\n)
only works in double quotes. It looks kind of stupid using
'someString'."\n"; and it`s kind of inconsistent using double quotes
for some lines like "someString\n";.
You can:
define('LF', "\n");
then
echo 'A newline' . LF;
or something
if you were going to do that you may as well use PHP_EOL
its cross-platform and doesnt require an define directive.
(php5 only)
-nathan
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