stripping line breaks

Anon

anyone know of a way to strip line breaks from a string? I tried the nl2br() function but it acted like it replaced the line breaks, but when i viewed the dump file, the line was still wrapping. The purpose of this file is to backup data from a database into a dump file which then the person can restore the data if anything happens... but i need each INSERT INTO command on one line, and some our wrapping... anyway to stop them from wrapping?

Anon

Try using strtr()

it translates characters, http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.strtr.php3

like this:

$mystring "string with new \n \n lines":
$strippedstring = strtr($mystring, "\n", "");

try that...

Cheers

/Jocke

Anon

didn't work
i think possibly because i'm on win32... but i've tried other things, replacing the line break with a <br> works, but the line break still shows... i'm using a form to input the data... but i can't seem to find anything about special line breaks...
-g

Anon

chop(), trim(), ltrim() ...

All in the manual in the String functions section. RTFM!

If you want to replace with <BR> tags, you'll need to cater for Win32. From a source I can't be arsed to look for again:

"The Mac uses carriage returns to terminate lines of text; Unix uses line feeds; Windows uses the sequence 'carriage return / line feed'."

So you should use str_replace() or ereg_replace() to do it, depending on how many platforms you need to cater for:

$string = ereg_replace"\n|\r|\r\n|\n\r", "<br>", $string);

Depending on where the data is coming from, you may need to escape some of those breaks and returns too.

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Anon

thanks a bunch, i'll give it a try.
-g