Print newline in PHP in single quotes

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I try to use single quotes as much as possible and I ve noticed that I can t use  n in single quotes  I know I can just enter a newline literally by pressing return  but that screws up the indentation of my code   Is there some ASCII character or something that I can type that will produce newline when I m using single quotes

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No  because single-quotes even inhibit hex code replacement   echo  Hello  world       xA

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I wonder why no one added the alternative of using the function chr     echo  Hello World     chr 10     or  more efficient if you re going to repeat it a million times   define  C NewLine   chr 10        echo  Hello World     C NewLine    This avoids the silly-looking notation of concatenating a single- and double-quoted string

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The only escape sequence you can use in single quotes is for the single quote itself    foo    That  s great     The only way you could insert a new line into a string created with single quotes is to insert a literal newline   bar    That  s cheating

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echo  hollow world    PHP EOL    Use the constant PHP EOL then it is OS independent too

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FYI it is possible to get newlines into strings without double quotes   printf  Please 1 sgive 1 sme 1 snewlines 1 s   PHP EOL     Which may be useful If your irrational fear of double quotes knows no bounds  Though I fear this cure may be worse than the disease

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This worked well for me   print r  Hello world  PHP EOL

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You can use this   echo  Hello World      n

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There IS a difference on using single VS double quotes in PHP  e g  1  echo   var n   2  echo   var n     in 1  PHP will print literally   var n in 2  PHP will have to search the location in memory for  var  and return the value in that location  also  it will have to parse the  n as a new line character and print that result   We re in the range of millionths of a second  but there IS a difference in performance  I would recommend you to use single quotes whenever possible  even knowing you won t be able to perceive this performance increase  But I m a paranoid developer when it comes to performance

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in case you have a variable      your var    declare your var   echo  i want to show my var here   your var   lt br gt

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No  according to documentation  PHP recognize no special symbol in single quotes  And there is no single reason to use single quotes as much as possible

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If you are echoing to a browser  you can use  lt br  gt  with your statement   echo  Will print a newline lt br  gt    echo  But this wont

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You may want to consider using  lt  lt  lt   e g     lt  lt  lt VARIABLE this is some random text that I m typing  here and I will end it with the  same word I started it with VARIABLE   More info at  http   php net manual en language types string php  Btw - Some Coding environments don t know how to handle the above syntax

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