Re: FN-FORUM: End of line (\r\n)

date posted 1st May 2007 09:42

Hi,

Thanks to you all for your help. Will try it out and let you know.

Jay



On 1 May 2007 08:08:55 -0000, Ray McGinty [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> On 30 Apr 2007, at 11:22 pm, Juraj Seffer wrote:
> > What is the best way to end a line? I'm using "\r\n" in auto email
> > responder but it creates one empty line after each line in Windows,
> > Mac looks OK.
> >
> > I want to break the line just once in both systems.
>
> Just use a \n on its own for a new line. Use two: \n\n if you want a
> line space between paras. This works for me in both Windows and Mac in
> every mail client I have tried.
>
> Don't include any carriage returns in your quoted text and make sure
> there's no space between your new line character and the next line of
> text, or you'll get an annoying little one space indent in your output.
>
> In other words, do this:
>
> $output = "First line of text /nsecond line of text";
>
> or this:
>
> $output = "First line of text /n";
> $output .= "second line of text";
>
> and not this:
>
> $output = "First line of text /n second line of text";
>
> HTH
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ray
>
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