Why not just use the nl2br() function? It's a lot easier that using any
replace function you build yourself.
On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 11:58 AM, David T-G wrote:
> Hi, all --
>
> I have a php script which writes comments out to a file in the format
>
> field@@comment
> field@@comment
> ...
>
> and everything has worked delightfully -- until someone put in a newline
> in one of the items and now we have
>
> field@@com
> ment
> field@@comment
> ...
>
> and things break. I read the file, line by line, and parse on @@ as my
> separator, so anything after a newline is lost.
>
> I thought I'd just replace that newline with a <br> since that's what
> the
> user really wants, but I can't get rid of the \n while I'm at it;
> through
> various attempts at directly replacing or using variables or such like
>
> preg_replace("/\n/","<br>",$mydatastring) ;
> preg_replace("/$newline/","$linebreak",$mydatastring) ;
>
> I get mixed results of
>
> field@@com<br>
> ment
>
> or
>
> field@@com
> <br>ment
>
> but in no case have I managed to get
>
> field@@com<br>ment
>
> which is what I want.
>
> Is there a way to turn off the recognition of \n as an end of line and
> instead operate on the entire $mydatastring?
>
> TIA & HAND
>
> :-D
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