Php Regular Expressions

[subuntug]

Hello, I'm newbie into PHP and I have a little problem.I learned that if we put in shortcut like \n inside a string data, this make a new line in the out put text.But unfortunately, this never works for me. For example, the following code seems correct :

<?phpecho "firstname= tata \n lastname=batata"?>

While I expect to get two lines, the browser display all my string in one line.So, please, tell me where is the problem into my code.Thank you in advance

[Synook]

What does this have to do with regular expressions?Anyway, the browser doesn't display line breaks verbatim, unless you are in a pre block. So while you are actually printing out two lines, to make them appear on two lines inside a browser you need to use a <br> tag. If you want to use PHP to convert newlines to break tags there is the nl2br() function.

[jeffman]

It works. View the source and you'll see the line break exactly where you expect it.Remember that HTML treats ALL whitespace characters the same: as a space. Spaces, tabs, and newlines are all the same, and if more than one appears in a row, they will all be reduced to exactly one space.If you want an HTML line break, use <br> or <p>Be aware that this has nothing to do with regular expressions and almost nothing to do with PHP. I'm not complaining. It's just something you'll want to know.