Replace empty line with a <br> tag from a php read text file...

[mits]

Is there a way i can read a text file and add a br tag where ever there is an empty line.

 

for example;

 

at the moment i have a text file which says

 

"hello 123 456

 

world abc xyz dfdfd

 

dfdf"

 

there is a blank line between the hello and world.  I need a way to add a br tag in between the 2 lines so when it displays it displays exactly as it is in the text file.

 

currently when i print out the contents of the file, it ignores the line breaks.

 

 

so to sum up,

- read an external text file line by line

- replace or add a br tag where ever PHP finds an empty line.

 

thanks

[PFMaBiSmAd]

http://us2.php.net/nl2br

[mits]

http://us2.php.net/nl2br

 

that isn't going to work for what i want. That assumes i have a "\n" for all line breaks. That just replaces \n or \r with the br tag.

 

the text file has no html coding....it's a text file with plain text.

[Cagecrawler]

\n or \r (or \n\r) is what the OS uses to define a line break.  They are there in a plain text file, you just can't see them.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

So, did you actually try the suggested solution before you decided it did not work?

[mits]

So, did you actually try the suggested solution before you decided it did not work?

 

oops! i have tried it now and it works fine. I used the follwing code.

 

<?php

 

$file = "line_break.txt";

$handle = fopen($file, "r");

 

$string = fread($handle, filesize($file));

 

echo nl2br($string);

 

?>

 

.. and it works exactly how i want.

 

thanks