On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Daniel Brown <danbr...@php.net> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:53, Tedd Sperling <tedd.sperl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This means you can rest assured that the newlines will be > appropriate for the system on which PHP is running. While it makes > little difference on the web, it makes a world of difference at the > CLI and when writing to plain-text files (including CSV). I've been > using it out of the force of habit for about seven years or so, and > exclusively (with the exception of email headers and other warranted > cases) for the last four. >
What if the system PHP is running on not the same one as the one that is going to read the plain-text/CSV/.. files? I don't think it is good practice to use it when writing to files. I often write files on a Linux server that people are going to read on a Windows PC. Apart from that, most software written in the last 5-10 years will happily read files with either \n or \r\n line endings. I'm not really sure about Win XP for example, but if it would have a problem with the Linux \n endings, it might even be better to *always* use \r\n line endings (except where standards require it), as I haven't seen a single Linux application since I started using it (about 9 years ago) that was not able to read a file with \r\n based line endings. Even better, go Unicode. Unicode specifies that there are 8 ways to make a new line, and they should all be accepted. However, the pretty uncommon NEL, LS and PS are not supported in many applications. (though CR, LF and CRLF are). - Matijn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
