[pmwiki-devel] changing \n to other delimiter

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:16:28PM -0400, The Editor wrote:
> On 5/15/07, Christophe David <pmwiki at christophedavid.org> wrote:
> > > $out = str_replace("\n", "||", $in);
> > > $out = preg_replace('/\\n/', "||", $in);
> > >
> > > Both seem to do the replacement, but don't get rid of the line break...
> >
> >
> > Depending on your OS, you can have \r (MAC), \n (Unix) or \r\n (Windows) as
> > end of line delimiters.
> >
> > This should work everywhere : $out = preg_replace('/[\\n\\r]/', "||", $in);
> 
> Thanks again Christophe! Just what I needed to know.  I ended up
> having to slightly modify the pattern...
> 
> '/[\\n\\r]{1,2}/'

Note that this will convert a pair of newlines into a single '||' .

I'm guessing that you'll want

    '/\\r\\n?|\\n/'

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