Including a text file & carriage returns

[Anon]

I have a .txt file that I need to include on a page (that was originally created through a textarea box). I've been doing it just as an include() statement; the problem is, when the file is included, the carriage returns are not read. How can I do that? Or would it be better to be using fread? These are fairly large txt files in some cases...

[alfoxy]

You could use a string replace method like :

$newstring =

str_replace ("\n", "<br>", $oldstring);