plain text to html

[Phily_Baby]

Is there a function already written that allows you turn a text string that looks like:

"this
is
some
text"

into this:

"this<br>
is<br>
some<br>
text<br>"

that is insert html line breaks in text that only has '\n' for line breaks at the moment?

I know how to do the reverse of this so I was figuring there must be something already written that does what I want.

~tia

[stolzyboy]

are you talking that you have a textarea and someone types stuff in, and you want to keep the line breaks, but you want to display it out of a textarea, well then sure

[man]nl2br[/man]

[seby]

$string = "this \n is \n some \n text";
$string = nl2br($string);

[Phily_Baby]

That's exactly what I want to do. Thanks to you both, I knew it must be a simple task 🙂

[stolzyboy]

np, come back to phpbuilder with more and any questions, it is a great community