Hello,

I'm trying to create an API app that logs into a router and creates a script, then runs that script. The problem is that I can only do a single line at at a time. When I use "\n" or "\r\n" inside the PHP API app text, the result created under /system/script is everything before the first backslash and nothing after it.

Here is my code: Here is the result under /system/script print
test router] > system script print
Flags: I - invalid
0 name="test1" owner="admin" policy=ftp,reboot,read,write,policy,test,password,sniff,sensitive,romon
run-count=0 source=:log info test


Any ideas? I have tried many variations and have read that the escaped characters in PHP only work with double quotes so I am aware of this issue but routerOS doesn't seem to handle them correctly anyway.

If I run this command in the router terminal, it works perferctly:
system script add name=test2 source=":log info test \r\n test"

Update:

I solved this problem by removing newlines from script text and terminating each command with a semicolon (leaving all commands on one line). I still am not sure why newlines aren't working but at least that is a good workaround.

Have you tried an actual newline in your script?

E.g.

Seems to work fine:

ASCII:
Hex:
Notice the 0d0a in line 0000007A which represents the actual newline.

Result: