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I'm generating a CSV file using PHP and opening it in Excel. Adding "\n" at the end of each record creates a new line and works perfectly, however I need to figure out a way to create a newline within a cell itself. The same functionality that alt+enter achieves when entering data manually into Excel. Does anyone have any insight as to how this can be performed? I have tried "\n\r", "\n", chr(10), none of which seem to work, just keep getting a complete new line instead of newline within the same cell.
What I want to achieve is a header that looks like this... This is all in one row in Excel..
Start Date End Date
Thank you for any help provided!
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use implode(PHP_EOL) will do the trick.
To embed a newline in an Excel cell, press Alt+Enter. Then save the file as a . csv. You'll see that the double-quotes start on one line and each new line in the file is considered an embedded newline in the cell.
The documentation of excel say that alt+enter puts char(10). char(10) is Line-Feed (LF), so it is the same character as \n in java.
A CSV file contains a set of records separated by a carriage return/line feed (CR/LF) pair (\r\n), or by a line feed (LF) character. Each record contains a set of fields separated by a comma. If the field contains either a comma or a CR/LF, the comma must be escaped with double quotation marks as the delimiter.
How are you creating the csv file?
If you're doing it correctly and using fputcsv, having a line break within a cell wouldn't cause an issue.
Documentation to fputcsv
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I have tried "\n\r", "\n",
Use "\r\n" :) Check the wiki article about 'Newline'
But note that you'll have to use double quotes. " otherwise PHP will not handle meta characters.
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