On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 12:29 -0400, tedd wrote:
> > At 9:26 PM -0700 3/29/08, Mary Anderson wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > >    I have a php script which produces text which is to be displayed
> > >in a textarea.  I have the wrap for the text area set to 'hard'.  I
> > >need to have newlines inserted in the text.
> > >     "\n" and "<br>" don't work.  They just get quoted literally in
> > >the text.  I suspect I need to use htmlspecialchars , but don't know
> > >what special character to feed it.
> > >
>
> Only getting to this now, but doesn't nl2br() do what you 
> want?<http://www.php.net/unsub.php>


well, i don't think nl2br() is  a solution here because nl2br() only replace
the '\n' with
<br/> html tags which is displayed inside the textarea. the textarea will
display a new
line with '\n'..

$str = "hello\nworld";
will display

hello
world

in text area. but

$st = 'hello\nworld'.

will be display as

hello\nworld

just like what TG trying to say..

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