How to make control characters visible in string?

Question

I was wondering if it is possible to make control characters in a string visible.

    $mystring = "Test\n";
    echo $mystring;

This will output Test but i don't want PHP to translate \n it should just output Test\n (For debugging purposes). Is this possible?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 25 '16 at 08:30

3

Put it between single quotes:

$mystring = 'Test\n';
echo $mystring; //Returns Test\n

answered Apr 25 '16 at 08:30

Daan

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

2

Use escape sequence with double quotes " or just enclose string in single quotes '.

$mystring = "Test\\n";
echo $mystring;

$mystring = 'Test\n';
echo $mystring;

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

Community

answered Apr 25 '16 at 08:29

Niklesh Raut

2 Answers2