Re: passthru

Richard Heyes wrote: >> Does anyone know way to passthru man pages so they don't show the >> ascii formating? > > You could: > > 1) Replace all newlines (ASCII 10) with a <br> tag. htmlspecialchars() > will do this for you. Does it? I thought it only replaced entities. \n is not a "special char" in html lingo in that you can include them happily in a document and it is still syntactically correct! I believe you want the nl2br() function instead here. > 2) Use a <pre> tag within which newlines are preserved > 3) Use preg_replace to replace non-printable characters (Can't remember > how exactly, but everything you need is in the manual - you will want > to strip everything from ASCII 1 - ASCII 32. IIRC. > I think it would be more to do with the special characters for making things bold and overwriting etc. rather than new lines specifically but I think you're 3rd point should work (without thinking about it too much :)) Col