Making a new line with single quotes?

Question

Can I do a line break like this '\n'?

Or do I must use double quotes - "\n"?

because I use single quote to echo HTML like this `'
'` so I thought I could use single quote for `\n`. — Run, Oct 25 '11 at 14:05

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 25 '11 at 13:46

8

You have to use double quotes. Otherwise, PHP will literally output \n.

answered Oct 25 '11 at 13:46

Brad

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 11 '16 at 17:26

3

just add

.PHP_EOL;

to the end of your line using single quotes and you will have a new line

edited Jul 11 '16 at 17:26

Machavity

answered Apr 06 '15 at 23:54

Ashraf

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 25 '11 at 13:55

3

To output a newline (or any other control character for that matter) you must always use double quotes.

An alternative to not use double quotes is chr() with the respective ASCII code as an argument:

echo chr(10); // same as echo "\n";

answered Oct 25 '11 at 13:55

Alix Axel

2

You can also (and it's better) use the constant PHP_EOL: `echo 'My'.PHP_EOL.'test;` – Matthieu Napoli Nov 04 '11 at 16:12

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 25 '11 at 13:46

1

No - \n in single quotes is '\n'.
Yes - you have to use double quotes.

answered Oct 25 '11 at 13:46

deceze

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