replace new line with new line and |?

[onedumbcoder]

I am trying to replace '\n' with '\n |'

 

but when I do this preg_replace('[\n]', '\n | ', $messeage) the results is a string that shows the '\n'

 

for example if i have

 

Hi I am

someone

 

I want it to show up as

 

|Hi I am

|someone

 

instead i am getting

 

\n |Hi I am\n |someone

 

I cant just do preg_replace('[\n]', '| ', $messeage) because then I will lose the new lines

[premiso]

$string = "Testing\nand testing again\n";
$string = str_replace("\n", "\n |", $string);

 

Use str_replace for simple replacements.

[Maq]

Yeah, if you don't need regex then just use what premiso suggested.  It should be a bit faster as well.

[redarrow]

example

<?php

$word="\n hi there \n  i am redarrow";

$test=str_replace("\n","|",$word);

echo $test;
?>

[Maq]

Is there an echo in here?

[redarrow]

I was thinking and i slipped sorry.

why over kill your code, read all the post.

[onedumbcoder]

Thanks guys but i figured out to do it a different way, and it works great.

 

I took this approach:

 

preg_replace('[\n]', chr(13).'| ', $message)

[Philip]

I think someone (*caugh*Maq*cough*) is just jealous they aren't a top 10 poster.

 

As the others said, it's better to use str_replace, it's going to be a bit faster since it doesnt have to parse the regex

[Maq]

I was thinking and i slipped sorry.

 

Hehe, I was just kidding buddy!

 

 

I think someone (*caugh*Maq*cough*) is just jealous they aren't a top 10 poster.

 

Aww man, you got me, figured me out...  Did you have to go there?

[redarrow]

i no maq mate.

 

can you show a statistic in speed please, for str_replace and regex.

[Maq]

Don't know how accurate it is:

 

http://www.php-scripts.com/php_diary/011303.php3

 

You could also do one yourself just to be sure.

[Philip]

A quick and dirty test on my server, 100,000 tests of each:

for($i=0;$i<100000;$i++) 
$x = str_replace(' x ','', $string);

And

for($i=0;$i<100000;$i++) 
$x = preg_replace('~ x ~','', $string);

Showed 0.157774925232 seconds and 0.217579841614 seconds, respectively. Tried about 10 times, about the same results each time.