If printed in a windows environment "\n" is a carriage return. Brian
-----Original Message----- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:32 AM To: Brian Spindler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: $dbh->unquote() At 11:19 -0500 3/27/03, Brian Spindler wrote: >Hi guys, gals! > > I have a pretty big string that I am inserting into MySQL via the >$dbh->quote($str) function, this works great however now when I pull the >data back out of the database and go to write it to a file the \n characters >that were inserted by quote are not being written back out as carriage >returns as desired. How can do a reverse of quote() or just get those >"\n"'s to print out as they should! =) ahh.. I'm frustrated, I tried >everything even split('\n',$str) and then reinserting the "\n". Doesn't >work, please help! > >Thanks in advance! >Brian What do you mean by "as they should"? After all, "\n" isn't a carriage return.
