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Bug #63427 echo or print don t print spaces and new lines
Submitted: 2012-11-03 12:50 UTC Modified: 2012-11-06 06:18 UTC
From: abelahcene at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Online Doc Editor problem
PHP Version: 5.4Git-2012-11-03 (Git) OS: linux debian
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2012-11-03 12:50 UTC] abelahcene at gmail dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.echo#refsect1-function.echo-description
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echo   or print  don t  print spaces and new lines

so echo "hello \n world \n hello again"

is printed in the same line.

same problem with print.


Test script:
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<?php 
echo "hello \n world \n hello again"

?>

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 [2012-11-04 02:15 UTC] niel dot archer at gmail dot com 
Works fine for me using v5.3.13, what version are you using.
Be sure you are using double-quotes, not single-quotes, or the line-feeds will not 
work.
 [2012-11-06 06:01 UTC] rbrunius at gmail dot com 
Are you looking at the output with a web browser? If so the "\n" does not cause a 
line break. You need a "<br />".
 [2012-11-06 06:18 UTC] philip@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2012-11-06 06:18 UTC] philip@php.net 
Not a bug. And I don't think it's worth mentioning HTML in the documentation 
here.

And you could use nl2br().
 
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