note 39615 added to function.nl2br

In posting some script formatted data to the screen, I noticed that if you nl2br a string containing <pre> tags, the lines within would be double-spaced; once for the \n which is preserved by <pre> and once for the <br />. So I needed a way to preform a nl2br on an entire message, but exclude or revert <pre> to just normal \n line-endings. This way, the text within <pre> tags would remain single spaced. string nl2br_pre(string input [, int wrap]) Here's the function I made to do that. It also wraps <pre> lines to $wrap characters wide, which you can adjust. <?php function nl2br_pre($string, $wrap = 40) { $string = nl2br($string); preg_match_all("/<pre[^>]*?>(.|\n)*?<\/pre>/", $string, $pre1); for ($x = 0; $x < count($pre1[0]); $x++) { $pre2[$x] = preg_replace("/<br[^>]*?>/", "", $pre1[0][$x]); $pre2[$x] = preg_replace("/([^\n]{".$wrap."})(?!<\/pre>)/", "$1\n", $pre2[$x]); $pre1[0][$x] = "/".preg_quote($pre1[0][$x], "/")."/"; } return preg_replace($pre1[0], $pre2, $string); } ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+39615 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+39615&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+39615&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php