I have a form with a textarea and it is being used by a marketing dept to paste a ms word doc into. It then is saved into a mysql database and viewable online. the problem is that the word doc used vbCrLf which is not recognized by the browser, so the lines are exteeeemely long. I have tried this: <? echo [${"mytextbox"},"vbCrLf","<br />"]; ?> It just results in an error: parse error: expecting "," or ";" on line 8 (which is the echo line above) I would like to be able to add the necessary code to the existing page so it will automatically do the conversions, or put the code into the display page so it will convert the text at the time it is loaded into the page to be read. Any suggestions on how to convert the vbCrLf to <br /> on the ms word doc that is pasted into a textarea? Surely somebody has come up against this problem, I have yet to find the answer that will work in any of my 3 php books or online. -- Regards, Chip -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]