RE: [PHP] formatting textarea input on output

/** * converts line break and spaces to page break * * @access public */ function nlbr($string) { return preg_replace("/(\r\n|\n|\r)/", "<br>\n", $string); } here is one i use , what i'm still trying to work out , its a way to splita long peice of content into a preview caption with a more link , my current code will break say if there was a G.W Bush , as it soughta gets the first . but need a way to get the first "." plus a \n so efwerui. qwroirwjoiwrj is consider a new sentence so will only show efwerui. any ideas ? >===== Original Message From Charles Kline <ckline@rightcode.net> ===== >hi all, > >i have a textarea in a form which gets inserted into a table in my >database (mySQL). When displaying this text back to the screen, how do >i retain the line breaks etc. that were in the original input? > >thanks >charles > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php