[RESOLVED] New line in .txt file

[khsater]

Hi, I'm trying to write a string passed from a <textarea> through an ajax function to a txt file. I know that a newline is written in the textarea using \n, but in the text file using \r\n (I'm on Windows), so I used preg_replace() to replace any instance of \n with \r\n. When I send the string "I redid this file.\nIt now has two lines." to php, the text file shows:
"I redid this file.\r\nIt now has two lines. ".
When I commented out the preg_replace(), the text file showed:
"I redid this file.It now has two lines."
Here is the code I'm using. (I've verified that the newline character is being sent by checking the string sent using firebug)

$file = urldecode($_GET['file']);
$text = urldecode($_GET['text']);
$text = preg_replace("/\\n/", "\\r\\n", $text);
if(!is_file($file)){
    die('There was a problem saving the file.  It may no longer exist.');
}
$handle = fopen($file, 'w');
if(fwrite($handle, $text)){
    print 'The file was successfully saved.';
    print $text;
}
else{
    die('There was a problem saving the file.  It may be write-protected.');
} 

Any ideas?

[criterion9]

I know this is going to sound like a stupid question but if you open the file with notepad is it showing the content on multiple lines? If so are you only having trouble in the bowser? If so try putting <pre> tags around you echoed content.

[khsater]

Like I said, the text file shows it all on one line with the "\r\n" literally shown when I open it with a text editor. The content comes from a textarea tag, which displays the content properly. The problem is only that the newlines are not written properly to the text file.

[criterion9]

Thats because you are escaping your \r\n as \\r\\n. This will make it show \r\n as text instead of a newline character. I just glanced over your post before and skipped the line where you showed the output in the text file somehow earlier. Sorry for that.

[khsater]

Thank you very much. That makes a lot of sense now that I think about it.
I guess I was stuck in the "passing a string from javascript to php" mindset as far as the escaping goes.