mail & newline problem

[Anon]

Hi,

this is strange...

I have this string:

2x Article this|1x Article that|5x Article something|

I do:

ereg_replace("|", "\n", $string);

Then I form a message like this:

$message_body = "Thank you for ordering\n" .
"The following\n" .
"$string" .
"Sincerly yaddayadda\n";

After that when the message is send, I receive the message body like this:

Thank you for ordering
The following
2x Article this 1x Article that 5x Article something Sincerly yaddayadda

For some.. very strange reason.. He eliminates my "\n" in the $string. I've also tried:

ereg_replace("|", "\n", $string);

As well as:

ereg_replace("|", "\r\n", $string);

The $string is formed in a while loop like this:

while (list($key, $val) = each ( $ses_cart_id )) {
$string = $string . $article[$key] . "x " . $article_description . "|";
}

For some.. very strange reason, all the \n characters work perfectly accept the ones that come from this string.

At first I didn't use the "|" seperator, but used . "\n" since that didn't work I thought that was the problem. That's why I ereg_replace the "|" for "\n" but that also doesn't work.

I even tried $string .= chr(13) but that also fails!

Am I doing something wrong or....?

Hope someones knows the answer because I'm running into walls at the moment ;-)

TIA,
Martin.

[Anon]

You're not changing the $string with this:

ereg_replace("|", "\n", $string);

You need to do this:

$string = ereg_replace("|", "\n", $string);

adam

[Anon]

may be this is very basic thing ot ask, but are you doing:
$string = ereg_replace("|", "\n", $string);

cos if you just do:
ereg_replace("|", "\r\n", $string);

that wouldnt actually replace the entries in the original $string.

hope this solves.

[Anon]

Argh!

No that was not the problem... The problem was in fact my mail editor.

Do you know those settings "reformat long lines" it simply wrapped the stupid thing a bit strange.

ereg replacing it with \n\n instead of one, at least leaves an extra line.

Could it be I was just hacking on it for too long.. I don't know..

Thanks anyway for answering so quickly dahamstra and daarius!