Converting &lt;BR&gt; to Linebreak

Converting to Linebreak

227adriani

Hi,

I'm trying to convert all <BR> tags in a line to a linebreak and I'm getting some weird results. Here's what I have.

@ $fp = fopen($loadfile,"r");
while (!feof($fp))
{
$loads = fgets($fp, 1000);
$addit = strip_tags($loads,' ');
$addit = preg_replace(' ', chr(13), $addit);
fwrite($fp2,trim($addit));
}
fclose($fp);

When I run this it only replaces the br and leaves the < and >. If I try $addit = preg_replace(' ', chr(13), $addit); then it doesn't do anything and leaves the alone. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

thorpe

use a [man]str_replace/man instead.

227adriani

I've tried that as well but when I use that it replaces the with nothing instead of the line return.

Hummingbird

There's a PHP function that takes line breaks and changes them to (nl2br()), so i did a little searching and found one that does that opposite (what you want). Didn't actually test it so im not sure if it will work.

function br2nl($str) {
   $str = preg_replace("/(\r\n|\n|\r)/", "", $str);
   return preg_replace("=<br */?>=i", "\n", $str);
}

Weedpacket

227adriani wrote:
I've tried that as well but when I use that it replaces the with nothing instead of the line return.

Works for me; how did you use it?