Re: note 9682 added to ereg_replace

From: Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 03:25:27 +0000
Subject: Re: note 9682 added to ereg_replace
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cculver@memphis.edu wrote: > I saw above that someone stated that you needed to use the ASCII code for a carriage return to > replace it. Actually, this method is a lot easier: > $News = ereg_replace ("\n", "<br>", $News); > In this case, it replaces every carriage return in the $News string with a <BR> basically > converting it into HTML. I've removed this note, not only was it a duplicate, (triplicate, actually) it's a expensive (slow) version of nl2br(). Sorry. :( -ronabop@php.net -- Brought to you from iBop the iMac, a MacOS, Win95, Win98, LinuxPPC machine, which is currently in MacOS land. Your bopping may vary.

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