print \n literally

Anon

I am trying to print th two characters \n inside javascript. I am reading a value from a SQL text field and then putting that data into a textarea box using php to generate my javascript. The problem I have is with line feeds. I take all my data before it enters my DB and replace all \r\n with and al \n with . I normally display the field contents in an HTML document.

However now I want to take that data and put it into a textarea. I cannot figure out how to get PHP to print \n without executing it.

Any ideas?

Anon

have you tried doing it like this:

echo "\" . "n";

I do that all the time and it works.

Or I think you can also do something like htis: echo "\n"; however Im not sure so I would just do it the above way.

Jason Rottman
www.stardefenders.com

Anon

Unfortunately, I am looking for something that can be done on a string value and have the result stored in the same string value rather than the result being sent to the screen immediately.

See I have hundred of fields that might be read. So before I store the data I run it through a cleanup function that replaced most special characters with ascii equivalents. This way it can be displayed on the screen correctly. Unfortunately, I cant figure out how to store a literal "\n".

Anon

$string = "hello bob, end line More text";

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

If I understood you right, you changed the \n with in a string inputted by a user and now you want to change it back to display it in a text box. I think thats how you do it.

Anon

Yes you understand exactly what it is I am trying to do. Unfortunately, "\n" will appear in my PHP generated Javascript. However javascript interprets \n to mean "print \n to the screen". So it prints \n in my textarea.