Re: Documentation for nl2br()
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:17:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Documentation for nl2br() | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.doc |
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Christian Wolfgang Hujer wrote:
> Hello dear PHP documentation team,
>
>
> I suggest you add in the documentation that
>
> 1. nl2br() does *NOT REPLACE* newlines with break elements but inserts a break
> element before every newline.
From the documentation:
"nl2br -- Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string"
>
> 2. nl2br() *CHANGES THE ORIGINAL STRING* and returns a reference to it, but
> does not create a new string.
uhm, it doesn't do that. Can you provide a script to demonstrate?
Derick
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