Posted by John Nichel on 11/09/57 11:19

Philip Thompson wrote:
<snip>
> That's the thing, I'm not inserting \r\n at all. When filling in the
> form, I hit "Enter" to go to the next line in the textarea. When I pull
> the original data I do:
>
> $textarea = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST["textarea"], $connection);
>
> if ($error) {
> // somehow replace the \r\n that mysql_real_escape string put in
>
> // then strip all the other slashes remaining: \' becomes '
> $textarea = stripslashes($textarea);
>
> // return to page
> }

$textarea = preg_replace ( "/\\\\r\\\\n/", "\n", $textarea )

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John C. Nichel
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