why don't you just use the nl2br() function? Tyler
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Kincaid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 9:11 AM Subject: [PHP] problems with replacing line breaks > I'm trying to replace line breaks with html code and am having problems. For > single lines preg_replace("/\n/","<br>",$text) or > ereg_replace("\n","<br>",$text) adds the <br> but doesn't remove the line > break. While preg_replace("/\n\n/","<p>",$text) doesn't find any double line > breaks, even though they're there. Why doesn't this work? > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php