Newline doesn't work always....??

The \n I write out to an open file does not work
the second time:

$xmlstr = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"\x3F>\n";
$songstr = "<songs>\n";

fwrite($handle, "$xmlstr"); //after this I got a new line
fwrite($handle, "$songstr"); //but not after this

$lines = file("./clips/$file_name");
foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {

fwrite($handle, " <song path=\"$line"); //$line is from
another file containing path and song text.
}

The output:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<songs> <song path="http://209.245.59.124/song.mp3

Should be:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<songs>
<song path="http://209.245.59.124/song.mp3


What do I do wrong??

Ralph

Ralph Höglund wrote:[color=blue]
> The \n I write out to an open file does not work
> the second time:
>
> $xmlstr = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"\x3F>\n";
> $songstr = "<songs>\n";
>
> fwrite($handle, "$xmlstr"); //after this I got a new line
> fwrite($handle, "$songstr"); //but not after this[/color]

I don't know what is the solution to your problem, but you certainly do
not have to surround variables with quotes to write them to a file. This
would do:

fwrite($handle, $xmlstr);

If you want to insert a variable in a string then you need quotes:

fwrite($handle, "The contents of this string is $xmlstr");
[color=blue]
> $lines = file("./clips/$file_name");
> foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
>
> fwrite($handle, " <song path=\"$line"); //$line is from another file
> containing path and song text.[/color]

And I guess this line should read

fwrite($handle, " <song path=\"$line\">");

Jonathan

Ralph Höglund wrote:[color=blue]
> The \n I write out to an open file does not work
> the second time:
>
> $xmlstr = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"\x3F>\n";
> $songstr = "<songs>\n";
>
> fwrite($handle, "$xmlstr"); //after this I got a new line
> fwrite($handle, "$songstr"); //but not after this[/color]
<snip>

in what mode did you fopen the file?

/* open $filename in text mode */
$handle = fopen($filename, "wt");

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Pedro Graca skrev:[color=blue]
> Ralph Höglund wrote:
>[color=green]
>>The \n I write out to an open file does not work
>>the second time:
>>
>>$xmlstr = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"\x3F>\n";
>>$songstr = "<songs>\n";
>>
>> fwrite($handle, "$xmlstr"); //after this I got a new line
>> fwrite($handle, "$songstr"); //but not after this[/color][/color]

Thanks all, I found out that I needed to use both \r and \n to
get it working. I am slowly getting the grasp of php programming now.
[color=blue]
>
> <snip>
>
> in what mode did you fopen the file?
>
> /* open $filename in text mode */
> $handle = fopen($filename, "wt");
>[/color]
Well, I opened it with "w", no problem with that.

I had also to trim the lines from my m3u-file to get rid of
return and newline chars.

foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
echo $line;
$line = trim($line);
fwrite($handle, " <song path=\"$line\"\r\n");
}
fclose($handle);

Now I have left the extraction of the song title to be invoked
into the end of lines as title = "song.mp3">

Will be back when (if) new problems arise.

Ralph in Sweden

*** Ralph Höglund escribió/wrote (Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:52:50 GMT):[color=blue]
> Thanks all, I found out that I needed to use both \r and \n to
> get it working. I am slowly getting the grasp of php programming now.[/color]

Well, that's a different issue. You need to use \r\n is you want to open
the file with Windows notepad, because that's the line ending convention in
windows. Linux/Unix use \n and (if I recall correctly, Mac computers use
\r). But you can always read the file correctly if you use a proper text
editor.



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