Re: splitting string

[Brent Baisley <brent@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem is that you are using single quotes, so php is looking for 
a literal \n rather than escaping it to a new line character. Try 
double quotes and then PHP will parse the contents of the quotes, 
looking for escape characters and  variables.
explode("\n")

Use nl2br() to convert new lines to <br />.

On Nov 16, 2004, at 1:01 PM, Afan Pasalic wrote:

> I  create a string from other strings:
> $string = 
> $string1."\n".$string2."\n".$string3."\n".$string4."\n".$string5;
> and then store it in DB.
>
> But, I can't figure out how to split them back?
>
> Tried:
> $string_back = explode('\n', $string);
> $string_back = explode('<br>', $string);
> $string_back = explode('<br />', $string);
>
> Anu help?
>
> Also, is there actially better way to do this then adding \n between 
> strings?
> (e.g. store form fields name, address, city, state, zip, phone, email 
> as a one string in db and later pull them from DB and split them 
> back?)
>
> Thanks for any help!
> -afan
>
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