HTML ingones line breaks and also will condense consecutive spaces down to a single space. You have two mainoptions to get 'newlines' in HTML - <pre> and <br>: 

# first you must always print a header line or you will get a 500 erro
+r
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

# now you can do this:
print "<pre>\nLine1\nLine2\n$some_var\nLine4\n</pre>";

# which is the same as this but not as pretty 
# (here I demonstrate the qq operator as well as using literal \n in t
+ext
print qq|
<pre>
Line1
Line2
$some_var
Line4
</pre>|;

# alternatively you can use <br> (here is a demo of herpage notation a
+s well)
print <<HTML
<p>
Line1<br>
Line2<br>
$some_var<br>
Line4
</p>
HTML

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tachyon

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In reply to Re: \n won't work?! by tachyon
in thread \n won't work?! by iamrobj

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