writing \r\n from text field to file

[anorakgirl]

hullo,
i am trying to write the values from a textarea to a file. which is ok, but when the textarea has returns in it, i want to put \r\n in the file so the textarea contents stay on one line.

i.e in the text file i want to have

this is\r\ntwo lines

rather than

this is
two lines

it does the second bydefault when i just do
fwrite($handle, $HTTP_POST_VARS["varname"]);

are there any clever PHP functions i can use to make it write the \r\n or can anyone suggest how to do this?

thanks for your help

[tekky]

nlbr()

I would do that....

then do
str_replace()

like $string = str_replace('<br>', '\n\r', $string);

when you retrieve the data for later use.....

all the file writing functions I can think of end a line on newline characters....

[anorakgirl]

oh yeah 🙂 i wasn't sure what to str_replace but i just did this and it worked:

str_replace("\r\n","\\\r\\\n",$HTTP_POST_VARS[$varName])

didn't think it'd be as simple as that, sorry!

[tekky]

heh no need to apologize, part of programming is learning 😉