cant replace \n

[windandwaves]

Hi Folk

I am getting some data from an html form (textarea). I am having trouble
with replacing line breaks in the data with spaces.

here is my line:

trim(stripslash es(str_replace( "\n", ' ',
(htmlentities($ _POST["facexp"]))))));

I end up with lots of   but the linebreaks are still there.

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you

- Nicolaas

[Chris Hope]

Re: cant replace \n

windandwaves wrote:
[color=blue]
> I am getting some data from an html form (textarea). I am having
> trouble with replacing line breaks in the data with spaces.
>
> here is my line:
>
> trim(stripslash es(str_replace( "\n", ' ',
> (htmlentities($ _POST["facexp"]))))));
>
> I end up with lots of   but the linebreaks are still there.
>
> What am I doing wrong?[/color]

IIRC line breaks from an html textarea are supposed to be done with \r\n
so you'd want to str_replace("\r \n\", '&nbsp', ...

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[windandwaves]

Re: cant replace \n

Chris Hope wrote:[color=blue]
> windandwaves wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I am getting some data from an html form (textarea). I am having
>> trouble with replacing line breaks in the data with spaces.
>>
>> here is my line:
>>
>> trim(stripslash es(str_replace( "\n", ' ',
>> (htmlentities($ _POST["facexp"]))))));
>>
>> I end up with lots of   but the linebreaks are still there.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?[/color]
>
> IIRC line breaks from an html textarea are supposed to be done with
> \r\n so you'd want to str_replace("\r \n\", '&nbsp', ...[/color]

Thank you.