Ah! That did it, it's all on Windows and when I tried removing things I
tried at one point removing the \r as i thought the nl2br changed the \n to
<br />
Thanks a lot John :)
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "CPT John W. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jeff Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Hidden new line markers?
> > The data is being entered into a textarea and is being stored as it is
> > entered but with an addslashes right before insertion.
> >
> > On the extract I am doing the following:
> >
> > $row[description] = stripslashes($row[description]);
>
> You don't have to use stripslashes() on data coming out of a database
unless
> you have magic_quotes_runtime enabled. If you find that you do need to
call
> it, then you're running addslashes() twice before the data is inserted.
>
> > $row[description] = nl2br($row[description]);
> > $row[description] = trim($row[description]);
> >
> > I was trying str_replace as follows but that wasn't working:
> >
> > $row[description] = str_replace("\n", "", $row[description]);
>
> This will get rid of the \n, but leave the \r there. On windows, you'll
> still see a newline even with just the \r remaining. If you know
everything
> is coming from Windows, replace \r\n with an empty string. Unix uses just
a
> plain \n and Macs use just \r, while Windows uses \r\n. Adjust your
> str_replace accordingly if you need to account for data from all three
> possible OS.
>
> ---John Holmes...
>
>
>
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