[PHP] problems with replacing line breaks

I'm trying to replace line breaks with html code and am having problems For single lines preg_replace(/\n/,br,$text) or ereg_replace(\n,br,$text) adds the br but doesn't remove the line break While preg_replace(/\n\n/,p,$text) doesn't find any double line breaks, even though they're there Why

Re: [PHP] problems with replacing line breaks

why don't you just use the nl2br() function? Tyler - Original Message - From: Tom Kincaid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 9:11 AM Subject: [PHP] problems with replacing line breaks I'm trying to replace line breaks with html code and am having