FAQ: Introduction to PHP - PHP Comments

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I got a doubt about this exercise:

echo “\nRasmus is the creator of PHP!”;

What is “\n” doing there? I test it without it and it seems it works like
, adding a new line. But, why is inside the quotation marks?

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Because a newline character is treated like string text, but with an escape so it is non-printing (per se). In the above, it causes the pencil to drop to a new line before rendering the rest of the string.

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Thanks for your assistance!

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