Re: Newline
| From: | heavyccasey at gmail dot com | Date: | Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:35:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Newline | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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I use
echo 'Blah blah
blah blah
blah.';
On 10/28/07, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/28/07, magoo <i.am.magoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi NG!
> >
> > 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";.
> > What`s the best way to get a consitent code?
> >
>
> choose the string syntax that best fits the purpose of the given string.
> if a string will not have variables embedded in it, or special characters,
> use
> single quotes. if it will, use double quotes.
> if you have a particularly long string, with variables and special
> characters
> consider Heredoc.
>
> -nathan
>