CRs in message text for email form

[austingecko]

I'm working on a script allowing a user to input a message and then having a script email the message.

But, when the user inserts a CR (carriage return/enter) the CR does not show up in the email message --- all the lines run together.

From the form:
<textarea cols="40" rows="5" wrap="no" name=f_message></textarea>

emailed:
mail($email, $subject, $f_message, $headers);

Any suggestions? Thanks!

[mikeatrpi]

Check out nl2br(). It converts newline characters to HTML >BR<. On most machines, a carriage return and pressing enter will be affected...

This line came from the php manual:

$s_data = ereg_replace("(\r\n|\n|\r)", "<br />", $s_data); 

That is a regular expression that supposedly replaces carriage returns and new lines.