note 30125 modified in function.chr by vrana

Note that chr(10) is a 'line feed' and chr(13) is a 'carriage return' and they are not the same thing! I found this out while attempting to parse text from forms and text files for inclusion as HTML by replacing all the carriage returns with <BR>'s only to find after many head-scratchings that I should have been looking for line feeds. If anyone can shed some light on what the difference is, please do. If you're planning on saving text from a form into a database for later display, you'll need to apply the following function so that it gets saved with the proper HTML tags. <?php $text = str_replace ( chr(10), "<BR>", $text ); ?> When you want to plug it back into that form for editing you need to convert it back. <?php $text = str_replace ( "<BR>", chr(10), $text) ?> Hope this saves somebody some trouble. :) --was-- Note that chr(10) is a 'line feed' and chr(13) is a 'carriage return' and they are not the same thing! I found this out while attempting to parse text from forms and text files for inclusion as HTML by replacing all the carriage returns with <BR>'s only to find after many head-scratchings that I should have been looking for line feeds. If anyone can shed some light on what the difference is, please do. If you're planning on saving text from a form into a database for later display, you'll need to apply the following function so that it gets saved with the proper HTML tags. $text = str_replace ( chr(10), "<BR>", $text ); When you want to plug it back into that form for editing you need to convert it back. $text = str_replace ( "<BR>", chr(10), $text) Hope this saves somebody some trouble. :) http://php.net/manual/en/function.chr.php