On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:12 PM, -- rada -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to implement a user-input scrubbing function, more specifically,
> normalize linebreaks from windows/mac to unix. I can just do preg_replace
> but I saw this piece of code somewhere and don't understand it enough to
> even know what to google.
>
> supposedly converts Windows CRLF to Unix LF:
> $str =~ s/\r\n/\n/g;
>
> What does =~ do? I can RTFM if you point me to it :)
That is perl code, and will not work in php. The php equivalent is:
$str = preg_replace('/\r\n/',"\n",$str);
It means replace all carriage returns followed by a linefeed with just
a linefeed.
Regards,
John Campbell
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