ooops, after many hours on this, I had deleted out the final echo statement. I will play with this and see what I get now.
<?PHP $bad_str = " \t\t\t\\r\\\r\r\r\r\n\r\nFour schore ...........and seven \n\n\n\n\nr\r\r\rn\r years ago, ,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,our father created on tis planet \t\t\t\\r\\\r\r\r\r\n\r\nFour "; echo( "<br>\nuncleaned string----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>\n"); echo($bad_str . "<br>\nn" ); echo( "<br>\ncleaned string---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>\n"); $bad_str = str_replace( "\r", "\n", $bad_str ); echo( $bad_str ); echo("</pre>\n"); ?> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php