Re: Getting a 'newline' out of a string

On 8/10/07, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/10/07, Faither <Faither@web.de> wrote: > > Hey there! > > 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? ^^ > > > > Thanks a lot in advance > > > > > > Stefan > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > If I'm not mistaken, Windows doesn't strictly use \n, but rather \r\n. > > -- > Daniel P. Brown > [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272 > [mobile] (570-) 766-8107 > Just to clarify, the DEFAULT line-endings for OSes: Windows: \r\n (carriage return followed by a newline) Unix: \n (newline) Mac: \r (carriage return) Of course it is possible to use other line endings on those OSes, but these are the default. Tijnema -- Vote for PHP Color Coding in Gmail! -> http://gpcc.tijnema.info