Re: [PHP3] \n's et al From: Wico de Leeuw (wico <email protected>)
Date: 08/31/99

At 10:00 31-8-99 +0100, christopher wright wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have a text string being placed into a mysql field from a textarea form,
>hence it contains all manner of newlines and other nasties.
>
>I want to take that string and replace any kind of newline with a \n so that
>I can end up with one long line of text suitable to stick into a javascript
>variable without getting unterminated string constant errors.
>
>So far I've tried just about everything I can think of with eregi_replace's,
>nl2br followed by eregi's on the BR produced etc, but nothing seems to be
>able to detect two newlines - i.e. a line of whitespace. Why won't this
>code produce me one long line of characters with \n instead of actual line
>breaks for example:
>
>$nq=nl2br($foo); // foo is my string...
>$nq=eregi_replace("<br>","\\n",$nq);
>
Dirty but works :

$nq = implode("//n", explode("/n", $nq));
of
$nq = implode("<BR>", explode("/n", $nq));

i think this is what you mean... else redifine :)

have a nice day

wico

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