str_replace can't find \n (newlines) - but nl2br works

[thinkcl]

I have a text column in MySQL that is populated and updated via a HTML form. When I retrieve the text from MySQL via PHP I can use nl2br fine but if I try to use str_replace PHP will not find the new lines. I have tried looking for "\n", "\r", "\r\n\" and even "\t" but nothing works. I can use MySQL's REPLACE function in the SQL query and it will find those characters. Here is the code...

function encode_datafeed($content)
	{
	$content_new = str_replace('\n',' ',$content);
	return $content_new;
	}

It seems to me that PHP maybe encoding the text string or that there is some sort of encoding issue. Any suggestions?

[NogDog]

str_replace([color=red]"[/color]\n[color=red]"[/color], ' ', $content);

(\n, \r, \t, etc. are only interpolated as special characters inside double-quote string literals.)

[thinkcl]

6 hours of beating my head against the wall and double quotes does the trick.

Ouch;-)

Thanks