Function nl2br() Problem

Anon

Hi all,

Example:
<textarea name="xyz" rows=7 cols=40 wrap="virtual"></textarea>

I'm getting an echo of some of
the text from xyz when I submit it and check the resulting page AFTER doing a $xyz=nl2br($xyz);

When xyz textarea contains:
test test

test test

Result:

test test> <--This is what is unwanted!

someother stuff

test test <--This is good

I've also tried the <textarea> without the wrap=virtual.

Any ideas???

Thanks,
Gary

P.S. Of course when I don't use nl2br ... the echo test test> isn't there BUT my xyz looks like this: test test test test which is of course not what the user entered.

Anon

Actually...after a few hours now, I just figured it out.

I'm not performing the function BEFORE I echo out the results. Now I echo the results on the fly like this:

echo "some text".nl2br($xyz)."some more text";

Works as advertised!