Re: re:linebreak
| From: | Steve Werby | Date: | Thu, 15 Feb 2001 00:13:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: re:linebreak | ||
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"Jens Nedal" <jnedal@ostry.com> wrote:
> In case of displaying \n that are stored in a variable or com from a DB or
> inptu field you can also use nl2br($var) which automatically converts
those
> linebreaks to <br> and so get displayed correctly.
Good call, Jens.
> Though that will not work
> for the tabs.
For tabs something like this will probably give a tolerable result, though
I've never had a need to try:
$var = str_replace( "\t", str_repeat( " ", 4 ), $var );
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