New lines from text area in mysql

[biannucci]

Hello,
What I need to do is similar to the function nl2br(). Except instead of <br>'s I need to replace the new lines with '\line's
because I'm printing my data to an RTF file and I need to preserve the new lines from the text area data I store in mysql.

I tried using substr_count() to see if I could manually even find any occurances of '\n' or '\r'. But, I found nothing. Is there a special string function I should use to recognize control characters like that?

[mtmosier]

There's nothing special about finding newlines, except to note that you have to reference them with double quotes instead of single quotes. '\n' means literally backslash followed by the letter n to php. "\n" translates to newline.

str_replace is probably good enough for this.

[biannucci]

Thank you SO much! Its little things like that, that I get stuck on.
Thanks again!!!