strip out too many newlines

im working on a comment/forum app and when a user enters too many carriage returns i want to remove them before insert to db. example, user input: -----snip----- [quote=user] foo [/quote] <bunch of extra lines> more text... -----snip----- I to change to: [quote=user]foo[/quote] more text... i try this regexp: $message = preg_replace('#(\[quote(=(&quot;|"|\'|)([^\]]*)\\3)?\])\s+#i', "\\1\n", $_POST['message']); doesn't remove / replace anything. I need for it to work when they use [quote=xx] or [quote] and ends with [/quote] any help? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.9/62 - Release Date: 8/2/2005