On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 18:14 +0200, Faither wrote:
> Hey there!
> I'm kind of lost with how str_replace , preg_replace, ereg_replace or
> even explode are handling a "\n"-ewline.
>
> I have a text string from a form and am trying to replace the "\n" or
> chr(10) or however you might call the newline with a simple html break tag.
>
> If I use the replacing functions I get the <br>-tags where there are
> newlines from the textarea of the form. BUT I still have the newlines
> remain.
That extra newline is probably caused by a "\r" character as promoted by
the Windows operating system.
You could try the following:
<?php
$string = str_replace( "\n", '<br />', $string );
$string = str_replace( "\r", '', $string );
?>
Cheers,
Rob.
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