Re: Replacing newlines (\n) with smething else
| From: | J. Cox | Date: | Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:09:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Replacing newlines (\n) with smething else | ||
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"Jason Giangrande" <jason@giangrande.org> wrote in message
news:1058130084.12830.5.camel@dragon.giangrande.org...
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to replace newlines with something else. For this example
> I'll use <br> as the thing to replace a newline with. This is what I
> tried and it doesn't work.
>
> $article = str_replace("\n", "<br>", $article);
>
> What am I doing wrong? $article is the string to replace the newlines
> in. I tried this with a period and that works as expected. Can I not
> replace newlines this way?
why not just:
$article = nl2br($article);
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J. Cox
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