textareas and string manipulation

[Anon]

Hi,

Can text be manipulated in a way that when shown in a form textarea each new line starts with '>' like with reply contents in webemail applications?

Is this a matter of counting the number of characters that fit on one line and insert newline breaks + '>' or can this be done easier?

thanks
Raoul

[Anon]

I think the best way to do it is to simply replace all your \n's with \n&gt; <-- should be & gt; not the literal greater than symbol.

Of course, some people would have you believe that regex is the way to go, but for simple string replacement, use str_replace()

example

$string = str_replace("\n", "\n&gt;",$string);

Make sure your nexlines are just \n and not \n\r.

[Anon]

arghh, the function should look something like this.
$string = str_replace("\n","\n& gt;",$string)

without the space between the & and the gt; part

[Anon]

Thanks David,

The problem with this is, that it will only detect newlines made through user input.

What I would like is that each line in the textarea starts with '> ' as done for example when clicking the reply button of a message in hotmail.

I don't think str_replace("\n","\n& gt;",$string) achieves this.

Raoul