Replacing br

[mrgrammar]

I have a string with line breaks from the return key in a text box from a form. I need to replace the line breaks with a double pipe. (||) I wasn't sure how to replace the line break, so I used nl2br to covert it to an html break and then attempted to replace the html break. So far, I'm using this code.

$thestring = nl2br($deliveryaddress);
$pattern = '<br />';
$replacement = '||';
$cleanstring = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $thestring);

However, it replaces the <br /> with <||>.

What am I doing wrong and how do I fix it?

[Weedpacket]

mrgrammar wrote:

What am I doing wrong

[man]preg_replace[/man] expects you to put delimiters around your regular expression, and with what you've got it thinks "<>" are your delimiters.

how do I fix it?

Just use [man]str_replace[/man]; it does everything you're trying to do without the extra overhead of using a regular expression. Even replacing linebreaks directly without the extra mucking around with nl2br.

[mrgrammar]

That worked perfect! Thanks!