Or just use a real text-editor that will properly handle
files with "\n" and "\r\n". Anything more advanced than
MS Notepad should properly grok what's going on.
Unless you're going to be exclusively on Win32, those
little bastard "\r"'s can really mess things up...
I've had entire scripts refu
Just to clarify, is the problem getting explorer to save the name properly?...
or is it still the carriage returns?
Isn't it amazing how typewriters are cause problems in todays programming
exercises?... :)
and yes, u can call me Ross :)
R
Henry Grech-Cini wrote:
> B.A.T.Svensson wrote (poss
Try passing the file through preg_replace. Replace all \n with \r\n.
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Quoting Henry Grech-Cini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Dear All,
>
> Firstly, I am a newbie to php so please be gentle.
>
> I'm havin
B.A.T.Svensson wrote (possibly not visible as a post yet)
> Are you trying to get line breaks on a web pages with CR/LF?
> (IF so: it not possible, use the HTML tag "" to induce a line break.)
No I'm not trying to do that, I'm trying to generate a CSV file from a
collection of tabels within a My
Dear All (and B.A.T.Svensson in particular)
I agree. It should not be necessary with a proper language. Could it be that
I need to use a different header as opposed to:
header("Content-type: Application/octet-stream");
In anycase doing TrimRight() and adding on a "\n" did not work!
Henry
"B.
> Congratulations on discovering the difference between windows and linux
> carriage returns. :) There are 2 types of new-line character, \r (carriage
> return, ie move the cursor back the the left hand side of the screen) and \n
> (new line, strictly interpreted as "move cursor down one line, b
Thankyou Ross, (may I call you Ross?) :-)
Worked a treat. The correct order is \r\n (\n\r just produces 2
undisplayable characters [][]).
I had tried \n\r but hadn't considered using \r\n.
Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou
Henry
"Ross Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> The downloaded file does not contain Windows type carriage returns of
> newlines! However it does contains the data thank goodness.
>
> What is the fix?
The problem you encounter is that one system is using soft line breaks
weather the other is using hard (never remember which one who did what
Congratulations on discovering the difference between windows and linux
carriage returns. :) There are 2 types of new-line character, \r (carriage
return, ie move the cursor back the the left hand side of the screen) and \n
(new line, strictly interpreted as "move cursor down one line, but not
a
