On 13 Jul 2003 17:01:24 -0400, you wrote:

>I'm trying to replace newlines with something else.  For this example
>I'll use <br> as the thing to replace a newline with.  This is what I
>tried and it doesn't work.

nl2br() in the specific case

>$article = str_replace("\n", "<br>", $article);
>
>What am I doing wrong?  $article is the string to replace the newlines
>in.  I tried this with a period and that works as expected.  Can I not
>replace newlines this way?

But in the general case, your code looks ok to me.

echo (str_replace("\n", "<br>", "foo\nbar"));

returns "foo<br>bar" here. Maybe $article doesn't contain what you think it
does?

(BTW, I prefer to replace "\n" with "<br>\n", but that's just a style
thing.)


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