On 10/30/07, Crayon Shin Chan <crayon.shin.chan.uk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Monday 29 October 2007, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > > 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) > > It's available in 4.3.10 as well, youre right about that; my mistake. but manual doesn't specify what it > defines - let the source tell it: phpunpack/php5.2-200708051230/NEWS:2867:- Added PHP_EOL constant that contains the OS way of representing newlines. 47 #ifdef PHP_WIN32 48 #include "tsrm_win32.h" 49 #include "win95nt.h" 50 # ifdef PHP_EXPORTS 51 # define PHPAPI __declspec(dllexport) 52 # else 53 # define PHPAPI __declspec(dllimport) 54 # endif 55 #define PHP_DIR_SEPARATOR '\\' 56 #define PHP_EOL "\r\n" 57 #else 58 #define PHPAPI 59 #define THREAD_LS 60 #define PHP_DIR_SEPARATOR '/' 61 #if defined(__MacOSX__) 62 #define PHP_EOL "\r" 63 #else 64 #define PHP_EOL "\n" 65 #endif 66 #endif I suppose I can echo or vardump it to find out. a little trickier than you might guess : php > var_dump(PHP_EOL); string(1) " " Also manual > doesn't mention "cross-platform", in any case even if it > is "cross-platform" it seems pointless because how does PHP know which > environment the output is going to be used in? its supposed to be used for the command line; theoretically the output will land on the same system from which its generated. however, coming from my linux box; this was correctly interpreted by internet explorer <?php echo 'blah' . PHP_EOL . 'blah'; ?> result when viewing source was blah blah I define 'CR', 'LF', 'CRLF' and use them as circumstances dictate. the use of that definitely depends upon the circumstances; ill stick w/ the predefined constant until i run into a problem ;) -nathan
