Re: Question about replacing \r\n with <br>
| From: | Lowell Allen | Date: | Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:45:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Question about replacing \r\n with <br> | ||
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> From: Al <news@ridersite.org>
>
> I can't find a way to replace \r\n codes with <br> in a text file.
>
> I'm reading a text file that was prepared with windows notepad
> The hex code shows OD OA for CR/LF as I expect.
>
> I'd like to replace the OD/LF with <br>s.
>
> I spent hours trying every User Notes in the PHP Manual for this simple
> operation. e.g.,
>
> $txt= preg_replace("\r\n", "<br>", $words);
>
> and this version
> $txt = preg_replace("/(\015\012)|(\015)|(\012)/","<br />", $txt);
>
> I can substitute other characters and dec equivalents and the
> substations just won't work for \r\n [or just \r or just \n] or "\015"
> or "\15".
>
> And, I've tried using "10" and "010" and "13" and
> "013".
>
> And nl2br doesn't work either.
>
> Can anyone help?
Here's what I use to make two returns a paragraph return and one return a
baseline return:
$text = ereg_replace("\r", "", $text);
$text = ereg_replace("\n\n", "</p><p>", $text);
$text = ereg_replace("\n", "<br>\n", $text);
$text = ereg_replace("</p><p>", "</p>\n<p>", $text);
HTH
--
Lowell Allen