Different line-endings on diffrent OS

Posted on 2010 July 7 by jontas

Windows, Linux/Unix and Mac have different line-endings on text files.

A quick overview on the endings are:

Windows-style line endings are CRLF ( \r\n or hex 0D0A )
Mac-style line endings are CR ( \r or hex 0D )
Unix-style line endings are LF ( \n or hex 0A )

A HEX editor can be used to double check that the correct endings are written.

2 thoughts on “Different line-endings on diffrent OS”

droope on 2010 August 11 at 21:50 said:

I’ve today learnt that, in PHP, one can use PHP_EOL to avoid headaches

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128560/when-do-i-use-the-php-constant-php-eol
droope on 2010 August 11 at 21:51 said:

sorry I missed this link
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/reserved.constants.php

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