The file prints out for example: LINE1\n LINE2\n LINE3\n
So the '\n' is printed as if I went print '\n'; and what I want them to do is print carriage returns. Brian -----Original Message----- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:50 AM To: Brian Spindler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: $dbh->unquote() At 11:33 -0500 3/27/03, Brian Spindler wrote: >If printed in a windows environment "\n" is a carriage return. >Brian You still haven't said what "as they should" means. You say that \n's don't print as they should, but not what actually happens. Do they just disappear entirely? Do they get turned into something else? What? > > >-----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.
