ereg_replace &lt;help please&gt;

ereg_replace <help please>

Anon

I'm stuck - I'm trying to get rid of any returns when a user inputs multiple email addresses. They break the mail header causing the mail to be sent from 'nobody' instead of the user.

I can't get the following code to do it.

$email_addresses = eregi_replace(",", " ",$email_addresses);
$email_addresses = eregi_replace ("\n", " ", $email_addresses);
$email_addresses = eregi_replace ("[[:space:]]+", " ", $email_addresses);
$email_addresses = eregi_replace (" ", ", ", $email_addresses);
$email_addresses = rtrim(ltrim($email_addresses));

mail ($email_addresses, $subject, $message, "From: $user_email\n")

Anon

Have you tried:

eregi_replace("\n", " ", $email_addresses);

I believe that you need to escape the escape to make sure it's sent properly otherwise you are just sending the letter n.

Anon

i tried that and still no luck.

it seems to me that the \n is being taken as a literal as opposed to recognizing it as a return or newline.

i know there's something simple to strip out returns but ... i can't find it.

[deleted]

the regexp you use is perfectly ok. (if somewhat strange)

Are you sure you must replace newlines, and not something else?

cordex

Agreed, Vincent.

Danielle, have you tried removing \r as well?

Anon

Actually, there is no need to comment the backslash in \n as far as I know.... a \n is treated as a newline character when the regular expression gets it. (it is never thought of as a backslash with an n by it).

-Josh

[deleted]

True, but only if it is enclosed by double quotes: "\n"

In single quotes, the string is taken literally, and it does indeed look for a backslash followed by an 'n'

Anon

I hadn't tried \r - just did and it didn't help.

What I'm trying to do is get rid of any returns in a textarea where a user inputs multiple email addresses. After they input all the info, it emails the recipients entered - problem is with multiple email addresses- if the user hits return it bumps the following email addresses out of the header and makes the from field blank so it comes as an email from 'nobody'.

am i making sense?

Header of email is fine until after the to field - then the rest of the header in displayed int the body of the email.

<header>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:04:14 -0400
From: Nobody <nobody@fcs.uga.edu>
To: danielle@fcs.uga.edu

<body>
danielle@fcs.uga.edu
Subject: [FileExpress]
From: danielle@fcs.uga.edu