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Posted by Philip Hallstrom on 06/14/05 00:17
> Good point. Only problem is, if someone hit enter a-million times,
> you would end up with a-million spaces where the "\n" characters were.
> To take care of that repetition, maybe something like:
>
>
> while (strpos($textarea_text, "\n\n")) {
> .....
> }
>
>
> would be one way you could do it.
$new_str = ereg_replace("[\n\r]+", " ", $textarea_text);
would be another and avoid the loop as well at the expense of adding some
regexps :)
>
>
> On 6/13/05, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful <lists@planetthoughtful.org> wrote:
>>> Use the PHP str_replace function before writing it to the DB. Replace
>>> all "\n" characters with an empty string "".
>>>
>>> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php
>>
>> I think it might be better to replace all "\n" characters with spaces " ",
>> otherwise you will end up with sentences that have no space break between
>> them.
>>
>> Ie:
>>
>> <original text>
>> This is the first sentence.
>>
>> This is the second sentence.
>> </original text>
>>
>> ...would become:
>>
>> <replaced text>
>> This is the first sentence.This is the second sentence.
>> </replaced text>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Murray
>>
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