On 23 September 2010 21:47, YAD(YetAnotherDavid) <animaz@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > This code is 95% cut and paste from the PHP manual examples - > the Types/Strings/Heredocs section and the Filesystem/fnmatch pages. > There are actually two questions here - I have combined the code into one > test file ... the strings in the code contain the questions .. > at the end I have inserted the output I get from the code - identical in > Firefox and IE8 (so it's not browser related), and on my desktop as well as > my laptop (so it's not a machine quirk). The setup is Xammplite Win32-1.7.1 > with PHP 5.2.9 and Apache 2.2.11 on both WinXP-SP3 installs. > > I tried Xammp Win32-1.7.3 with the same results. Then I tried installing > Apache and PHP and MySQL individually, and got the same ... > Aside from the issue here, I also was unable to get imagick and xdebug > running on the same installation - it was one or the other. imagick's > readfile() caused Apache to baulk on PHP5.3.3, so I returned to a fresh > Xammplite setup. Same results. > > I have spent many hours with this - I would appreciate some insight .. > > Question 1 : how to get the newline functioning ....? even print_r() output > is not 'newlined' as it should be. Also note the \n is missing between the " > " in the output text of the second test! > Are you outputting to browser or to command line? Browsers have a habit of ignoring whitespaces, reducing them to one whitespace character regardless of their type or how many. Regards Peter -- <hype> WWW: http://plphp.dk / http://plind.dk LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/plind BeWelcome/Couchsurfing: Fake51 Twitter: http://twitter.com/kafe15 </hype> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php