How can I replace newline or r n with br

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I am trying to simply replace some new lines and have tried three different ways  but I don t get any change   description   preg replace    r  n  r      lt br  gt     description    description   str replace array  quot  r n quot    quot  r quot    quot  n quot     quot  lt br  gt  quot    description    description   nl2br  description    These should all work  but I still get the newlines  They are double   quot  r r quot   That shouldn t make any of these fail  right

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nl2br   worked for me  but I needed to wrap the variable with double quotes  This works   description   nl2br  quot  description quot     This doesn t work   description   nl2br  description

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Try this  echo str replace array   r n     n r     n     r      lt br gt     description

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You may have real characters     in the string  the single quote strings  as said  Robik    If you are quite sure the   r  or   n  strings should be replaced as well  I m not talking of special characters here but a sequence of two chars     and  r    then escape the     in the replace string and it will work   str replace array   r n    r    n     r     n     r  n     lt br  gt    description

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nl2br   as you have it should work fine    description   nl2br  description     It s more likely that the unclosed   on the first line of your example code is causing your issue  Remove the   after  description         description

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I think str replace array  quot   r  n quot    quot   r quot    quot   n quot     quot   quot    string   will work

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This will work for sure  str replace  quot   r quot    quot  lt br   gt  quot    description    str replace  quot   n quot    quot  lt br   gt  quot    description

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Try using this   description   preg replace  quot   r n  r  n  quot     lt br  gt     description

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If you are using nl2br  all occurrences of  n and  r will be replaced by  lt br gt   But if  I don   t know how it is  you still get new lines you can use str replace  quot  r quot   quot  quot   description   str replace  quot  n quot   quot  quot   description    to replace unnecessary new lines by an empty string

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description   nl2br stripcslashes  description

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There is already the nl2br   function that inserts  lt br gt  tags before new line characters  Example  codepad    lt  php    Won t work  desc    Line one nline two      Should work  desc2    quot Line one nline two quot    echo nl2br  desc   echo   lt br  gt    echo nl2br  desc2     gt   But if it is still not working make sure the text  desciption is double-quoted  That s because single quotes do not  expand  escape sequences such as  n comparing to double quoted strings  Quote from PHP documentation   Note  Unlike the double-quoted and heredoc syntaxes  variables and escape sequences for special characters will not be expanded when they occur in single quoted strings

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