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Posted by Rik on 04/26/07 17:58
matthew.davey@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi. Having a little problem with preg_replace in php.
>
> I'm trying to convert newlines from a form input to HTML <br /> tags,
> but havingnever used expression matching I can't seem to get it
> working properly. I'm searching online as well but was wondering if
> any of you guys could help.
>
> I'm using this code at the moment:
>
> $text=preg_replace('/\s/','<br>',$input);
> $text=preg_replace('/<br><br>/i','<br />',$text);
>
> ($input is the input code to the function)
>
> the problem with this is that is also converts spaces in <br /> which
> is not very useful at al :(.
>
> Any ideas how i can convert all windows and linux newline characters /
> r/n | /n into <br /> using preg_replace guys? I'm probably being
> stupid but i can't seem to get it woring :(
nl2br() would seem the logical solution...
If you're curious what the regex should be:
$text = preg_replace('/(\r\n|\n|\r)/','<br />',$text);
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Rik Wasmus
Estimated date being able to walk again: 01-05-2007.
Less then a week, hurray!
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