Re: Getting a 'newline' out of a string

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On 8/10/07, Faither <Faither@xxxxxx> 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.
>
> So I tried a different approach breaking the text down into an array using:
>       explode(' ', $string)
> in conjunction with trim() and again made a string out of the array. -
> <br>-tags still there, newlines aswell -.-'
>
> Next thing I tried was exploding the string using the "\n" and chr(10).
> This function ignored all newlines and gave me an array with one key and
> the entire text of the textarea as value.... Oh... and the newlines of
> course were there aswell...
>
> So... How can I get rid of these?! - I just want them gone!
>
> Is it even possible under windows? ^^
>
> Thanks a lot in advance
>
>
> Stefan
>
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    If I'm not mistaken, Windows doesn't strictly use \n, but rather \r\n.

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