Re: outputting a carriage return

bob pilly <bobpilly@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi all > Can someone tell me why if i echo a line like this: > > > echo "this is a \n newline"; > the output is: > this is a > newline. > > But if i do this: $text="this is a \n newline"; > echo $text; > the output is: > this is a newline? works fine for me. > > Is there something i have to do to a variable in order for echo or print to treat special chars > like '\n' correctly? > nope. as long as the \n is inside " quotes then it will get treated as a new line.