Strangely, when I use \n, or nl2br(), or PHP_EOL, or anything like that, it strips out not just line breaks, but most of the rest of the text as well. I suspect an encoding issue at this point. Daniel, you were right when you said that neither of my str_replace lines had repl.acement values; that was indeed a typo when I was copying the code over into my email. Ashley, I've already been using strip_tags to eliminate all but <p>, <ol>, <ul>, and <li> tags. On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:24 AM, David Harkness <david.h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Richard S. Crawford < > richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> $content = preg_replace("/[".chr(10)."|".chr(13)."]/","",$content) >> > > This should be > > $content = preg_replace('/[\r\n]/','',$content) > > First, you can embed \r and \n directly in the regular expression as-is > (not converted to chr(10) by PHP) by using single quotes. Second, you don't > want the vertical bar inside []. That's only for (). > > David > > -- Sláinte, Richard S. Crawford (richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) http://www.underpope.com