Re: Getting a 'newline' out of a string

On 8/10/07, Stut <stuttle@gmail.com> wrote: > Faither wrote: > > I'm kind of lost with how str_replace , preg_replace, ereg_replace or > > even explode are handling a "\n"-ewline. > > > > I have a text string from a form and am trying to replace the "\n" or > > chr(10) or however you might call the newline with a simple html break tag. > > > > If I use the replacing functions I get the <br>-tags where there are > > newlines from the textarea of the form. BUT I still have the newlines > > remain. > > > > So I tried a different approach breaking the text down into an array using: > > explode(' ', $string) > > in conjunction with trim() and again made a string out of the array. - > > <br>-tags still there, newlines aswell -.-' > > > > Next thing I tried was exploding the string using the "\n" and chr(10). > > This function ignored all newlines and gave me an array with one key and > > the entire text of the textarea as value.... Oh... and the newlines of > > course were there aswell... > > > > So... How can I get rid of these?! - I just want them gone! > > > > Is it even possible under windows? ^^ > > First of all look at http://php.net/nl2br which does exactly > what you're > trying to do. > > Second try this... > > $string = str_replace("\r\n", '<br />', $string); > $string = str_replace("\n", '<br />', $string); > > -Stut > You forgot the Macintosh newlines, which is a single carriage return. Try this code instead: $string = str_replace("\r\n", '<br />', $string); $string = str_replace("\n", '<br />', $string); $string = str_replace("\r", '<br />', $string); Tijnema -- Vote for PHP Color Coding in Gmail! -> http://gpcc.tijnema.info