Re: Beginners question

My guess is that the new lines are there, but since you're (most likely) outputting HTML, you don't see them. Take at look at the br HTML tag. Martin Purdy wrote:

Hi everybody I am totally new to PHP, and I have a problem with the Print statement. When I send a newline using "\n" nothing happens. I cannot get any linebreaks into my code. The following line is copied from the PHP Manual, and is sopposed to give me

the text split into 3 lines, but they come out as one line. echo "This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as well."; Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? Martin Purdy

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