New line not working in PHP 5.6

Question

Here i am using PHP 5.6 version in that i am trying to do line break but it is not happening , i having text like Gshdhdhhdhdhhdhdhd\nGdghdhdhhdhd\nGdgdhfhhdhd\nGgdhdhhdd\nGgdhdhdhhd\nGe hdhdhdhd using this text \n means new line should start ,so i am using str_replace but it not working

My Code

echo  str_replace ('\r\n','<br>','Gshdhdhhdhdhhdhdhd\nGdghdhdhhdhd\nGdgdhfhhdhd\nGgdhdhhdd\nGgdhdhdhhd\nGe hdhdhdhd');

Another method

echo  nl2br ("Gshdhdhhdhdhhdhdhd\nGdghdhdhhdhd\nGdgdhfhhdhd\nGgdhdhhdd\nGgdhdhdhhd\nGe hdhdhdhd");

Answer 1

If you are outputting this on an html page use the break tag
I do this all the time in my test suites for debugging.

echo "Some text want a newline<br>next text want another newline<br>";

the \n and \r\n are for text files.