Why is print statement not printing NEW LINE (\n)

[patelxxx]

When I running the following .cgi script, not sure why each print statement is not printing on a new line, even after entering \n. Browser=IE6

See Perl code below:

#!C:/perl/bin/perl.exe -w
 
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
 
use CGI qw(:standard);
 
$name = param('name');
$age = param('age');
$home = param('home');
 
print "NAME: $name\n";
print "HOME: $home\n";
print "AGE:  $age\n";

The output I get is all on one line:
NAME: fred HOME: england AGE: 42

[KevinADC]

it is in the source code, but html has no concept of a newline, you have to use html code to format html pages.

[numberwhun]

When I running the following .cgi script, not sure why each print statement is not printing on a new line, even after entering \n. Browser=IE6

See Perl code below:

#!C:/perl/bin/perl.exe -w
 
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
 
use CGI qw(:standard);
 
$name = param('name');
$age = param('age');
$home = param('home');
 
print "NAME: $name\n";
print "HOME: $home\n";
print "AGE:  $age\n";

The output I get is all on one line:
NAME: fred HOME: england AGE: 42

I am going to guess that this script is called from another script because I don't see the HTML in here for the form.

Either way, I went and set the variables (all 3) to values, and it printed just fine on 3 different lines.

Not sure why it would be doing that to you.

Regards,

Jeff

[KevinADC]

He's viewing the output in a browser. He needs to use HTML code to format the output.

[numberwhun]

He's viewing the output in a browser. He needs to use HTML code to format the output.

he he, silly me. Wasn't thinking along the lines of displaying in the browser.

[patelxxx]

Thank you Kevin, formatting the code with HTML worked. Thanks again.

Kevin, why did the <p> tag before \n did the trick - allow me to print on seperate lines?

i.e.

[CODE:Perl]print "NAME: $name<p>\n";
print "HOME: $home<p>\n";
print "AGE: $age<p>\n";[/code]

Thanks

[KevinADC]

because <p> means a new paragraph in html code. The browser sees the html tags and formats the display accordingly. The browser completely ignores the newlines.

You will need to learn some basic html coding if you are going to write CGI scripts. HTML is very very easy stuff. There are many online resources that can show you the basics of html code. HTML gets a bit more complicated when you use style sheets, refered to as CSS, but it's still fairly easy stuff.

[numberwhun]

because <p> means a new paragraph in html code. The browser sees the html tags and formats the display accordingly. The browser completely ignores the newlines.

You will need to learn some basic html coding if you are going to write CGI scripts. HTML is very very easy stuff. There are many online resources that can show you the basics of html code. HTML gets a bit more complicated when you use style sheets, refered to as CSS, but it's still fairly easy stuff.

My recommendation would be to go to w3schools.com. Nothing like learning from those who wrote the spec(s).

Regards,

Jeff

[patelxxx]

Thank you guys for the advise.

[erik sam]

add a <br> after each line (i.e. print "NAME: $name\n"; <br> )