PHP Linefeeds (\n) Not Working

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Published on 2010-06-10T15:48:58Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 15:52 UTC
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For some reason I can't use \n to create a linefeed when outputting to a file with PHP. It just writes "\n" to the file. I've tried using "\\n" as well, where it just writes "\n" (as expected). But I can't for the life of me figure out why adding \n to my strings isn't creating new lines. I've also tried \r\n but it just appends "\r\n" to the line in the file.

Example:

error_log('test\n', 3, 'error.log');
error_log('test2\n', 3, 'error.log');

Outputs:

test\ntest2\n

Using MAMP on OSX in case that matters (some sort of PHP config thing maybe?).

Any suggestions?

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