Re: Carriage returns

Lets say your textarea has a name of comments then: preg_replace("/(\r\n)/", "\n", $comments); # replaces all \r\n ( wintel ) to \n only preg_replace("/\r/", "\n", $comments); # replaces all \r ( macintosh ) to \n only Tyler >>> "Stephen" <webmaster@melchior.us> 10/18/02 01:35PM >>> Actually, what the user types in then goes out into an email. I'd have to switch the enters into \n but I'm not sure how... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Baisley" <brent@landover.com.> To: "Stephen" <webmaster@melchior.us> Cc: "PHP List" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Carriage returns > You want to use addslashes before you store it in the database. When you > retrieve the data, you want to use removeslashes to convert things back. > If you are just going to display the submitted text as regular text on a > page, you want to use nl2br to convert the returns (new lines) to and > html <br />. > > On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 03:02 PM, Stephen wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > How can I make it so when a user types something in to a textarea, when > > they push enter, it stays as an enter? I've tried using a replace > > function that replaces the ASCII code for enter to \n but that didn't > > work. > > > > Thanks, > > Stephen Craton > > http://www.melchior.us > > http://php.melchior.us > > > -- > Brent Baisley > Systems Architect > Landover Associates, Inc. > Search & Advisory Services for Advanced Technology Environments > p: 212.759.6400/800.759.0577 > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php