Jim Giner wrote: > I am outputting to a <textarea> on an html page. A <br> doesn't work, nor > does \n, hence the 
. Of course, if I don't need the & then I've > just saved two keystrokes. :) Also - I do believe I tried ($i+1) and > that didn't work either. > > "Paul M Foster" <pa...@quillandmouse.com> wrote in message > news:20110323034621.go1...@quillandmouse.com... >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:50:54PM -0400, Jim Giner wrote: >> >>> Yes - it is J and I. I tried using $i+1 in the echo originally but it >>> wouldn't run. That's why I created $j. >> >> Yes, the substitution creates a syntax error unless surrounded by >> parentheses or the like. >> >>> And just what is wrong with the old cr/lf sequence? How would you have >>> done >>> it? >> >> You're using HTML-encoded entities for 0x0d and 0x0a. You can simply >> use 0x0d and 0x0a instead. If you're running this in a web context, you >> should use "<br/>" instead of CRLF. At the command line, I'm not >> familiar with running PHP on Windows. In *nix environments, it's enough >> to use "\n", just as they do in C. It might even work in Windows; I >> don't know. If not, you should be able to use "\r\n". You can also try >> the constant PHP_EOL, which is supposed to handle newlines in a >> cross-platform way. >> >> Paul >> >> -- >> Paul M. Foster >> http://noferblatz.com >> http://quillandmouse.com
It's possibly worth reinforcing at this stage of the game that 
 and 
 are incorrectly formed strings to represent CR and LF, in that they should have a closing semicolon to delimit the end of the entity. I think this was pointed out elsewhere but I believe it deserves repeating. Cheers -- David Robley Sumo Wrestling: survival of the fattest. Today is Pungenday, the 10th day of Discord in the YOLD 3177. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
