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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/20/06 13:51
weirdstuff wrote:
> Errr, what? :)
>
> Ok I had figured that a backslash was being added when I read the
> string from DB, but all my attempts of correcting that have failed.
> What we have here is a case where knowing how the output is formatted
> _exactly_ is very important. So it would be nice to be able to
> "manually" format stuff like newlines and breaks.
>
> Now, your suggestions:
>
>
>>So, what you have to do is change your formatting characters. Replace
>>"\\n" with "\n" and "\\r" with "\r", for instance.
>
>
> The string already has single backslash in the database. If I add
> another "just for fun" I just get two in the output. If I then do a
> stripslashes() on one or the other then that doesn't help either.
>
>
>>Or, alternatively, put the actual characters themselves in the database.
>
>
> Thats exactly what I'm trying not to do.
> So we can agree that the problem is when I am getting the string from
> the database. Then PHP (or MySQL?) does some funkyness to the string
> variable which makes PHP think that \n means it should print
> "backslash" and "en"
>
> Jolly good show. Now lets fix it! :)
>
Please read it again. Replacing "\\n" with "\n" will not add another
backslash. It will convert the backslash and en to a newline character.
You really only have two choices. Either put the characters themselves
in the database, or put something representing the characters in the
database and substitute after you read them out.
And BTW - you cannot exactly control formatting on the user's browser.
All you can do is recommend formatting. If you want exact, create a PDF.
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