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Thu 10/08/06 at 18:13

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Basically, I've got a string, and it has some newline characters in it, and I want to replace these with '
'. I've tried doing a str_replace() looking for '\n' and '\r\n', but to no avail, it doesn't do anything. I know there's the nl2br() function designed specifically for this purpose but I'm being awkward, and can't really see why my str_replace() isn't working...

I'm getting the string from a

if that makes any difference(?)<br />
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							Ah, yes, I always forget about needing double quotes for newlines... I always use single quotes in PHP as it just avoids escaping "s when echoing HTML.<br />
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							Sibs wrote:<br />
> '\n' and '\r\n'<br />
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Make sure you're using "\n" and "\r\n", if you use single quotes then PHP wont parse the string and interpret them as the correct characters.<br />
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And I never use nl2br() either so I guess I'm awkward too. :)						</div>
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							Basically, I've got a string, and it has some newline characters in it, and I want to replace these with '<br />'. I've tried doing a str_replace() looking for '\n' and '\r\n', but to no avail, it doesn't do anything. I know there's the nl2br() function designed specifically for this purpose but I'm being awkward, and can't really see why my str_replace() isn't working...<br />
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I'm getting the string from a <textarea> if that makes any difference(?)<br />
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