formatting - regular expression

[dodo]

hi i wonder if you could help me solve a problem for my board.

i modifed the code so whenever someone uses [*code] adga [/code] it will replace it with a textarea so that it doesn't stretch out the table. since my tables have fixed pixel width. but now it's also showing <br />
i really don't need it to show that.. but if i do a str_replace on all the post, it will get rid all the <br /> in the post. that's not what i want either.

example: http://board.regretless.com/viewthread.php?tid=11859&page=1#pid139460

i just want it to perserve the <br /> in the post other than between [*code] and [/code]

is that possible?

if you view the current code at
http://board.regretless.com/functions.phps

the function that does the actual work is postify

thanks in advance!

[RedDragon]

im not sure what your exactly trying to do....
do you want to transfer the br to a newline in the textfield then you might use

$text= str_replace("<br />","\r\n",$text);

if thats not what you've looked for make an example what you want the text to happen with....

[dodo]

that's not what i want. what i want is the exactly as on http://board.regretless.com/viewthread.php?tid=11859&page=1#pid139460 but NO <br /> in the textarea. since the postify function uses nlbr to convert all \r\n to break lines, they show up in the textarea but i want them to show up as \r\n in the textarea but not the rest of the message body.