help with a regex

[Anon]

I have data stored in a text file. I like certain data o be stored all on one line. So when someone enters something into a text box and uses multiple lines, i want the lines to come together onto one line when i enter them into the text file. So i change the \n character to something else. Then when i pull the data from the file i want to change it back to multiple lines. For instance:

See jack NEW_LINE run

when i pull it from the file i want it to be outputed as

See jack run

but for some reason it aint working when i use:

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

any ideas?

[Anon]

If you are outputing to html, you may have to replace NEW_LINE with <br> instead of \n.

Chad

[Anon]

Maybe I'm confused . . . why replace "NEW_LINE" with "\n" if you want it all on one line? Why not just get rid of it entirely?

echo ereg_replace("NEW_LINE ", "", $string);