forms and new lines

[Anon]

Hi, I have a form textarea writing to a txt file, the contents of which are read out line by line in a php file. All works beautifully, but then if you add line breaks (by hitting return as opposed to coding using <br> or <p> or whatever) then the txt file gets mucked up, is there anyway (presumably using preg_replace or str_replace) to replace line breaks with "<br><br>"?

[Anon]

ereg_replace("\n","<br><br>");

or

ereg_replace("\n","<br><br>");

not sure which one works.

[Anon]

thanks, the first one works, obviously you need to include the string where it happens though, thus
$newentry=ereg_replace("\n","<br>", $newentry);