Writing strings to files

[Chris Styles]

Dear All,

I'm fairly new to PHP (i'm converting from Perl) and so I'm still getting up
the learning curve.

I'm seeing some odd behaviour when writing certain strings to files.

The line that is failing is :

fwrite ($fp,"#include <avr/io.h>\n");

It only writes the "#include" part. It seems that it is the "<" that is
causing the problem as the following line works a treat.

fwrite ($fp,"#include avr/io.h>\n");

I have even tried writing it using a variable, i.e.

$myvar = "#include <avr/io.h>";
fwrite ($fp,"$myvar\n");

but that doesnt work either.

So, how do i write the character "<" to a file?

Any help much appreciated..

Chris

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Chris Styles wrote:

> I'm seeing some odd behaviour when writing certain strings to files.
>
> The line that is failing is :
>
> fwrite ($fp,"#include <avr/io.h>\n");
>
> It only writes the "#include" part. It seems that it is the "<" that
> is causing the problem as the following line works a treat.
>

Are you watching the result with a web browser? In that case <avr/io.h> gets
treated as a tag and therefore not displayed.

Look at the source directly, or apply htmlentitities before writing:

fwrite ($fp, htmlentities("#include <avr/io.h>\n"));


JW

[Andy Hassall]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:47:21 +0200, "Janwillem Borleffs" <jw@jwscripts.com>
wrote:

>Are you watching the result with a web browser? In that case <avr/io.h> gets
>treated as a tag and therefore not displayed.
>
>Look at the source directly, or apply htmlentitities before writing:
>
>fwrite ($fp, htmlentities("#include <avr/io.h>\n"));

... or sent a Content-type: text/plain header.

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