[SOLVED] How to remove repeating tags

[jordanwb]

On my SCM that I'm working on I have a News plugin that handles Adding, Editing, Deleting and viewing news items. When a person adds a news Item it turns the following input:

 

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 

 

into:

 

<span>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.<br />
<br />
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</span>

 

The problem is that when the person edits this News Item, the nl2br function adds an extra set of break tags:

 

<span>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</span>

 

Now that would create a noticible problem. What I want to do is somehow remove the extra break tags but leave one for each newline. Now you may suggest "Why not remove the nl2br call in the Edit?" Well what if the person adds more lines?

[trq]

You need to store your data in its raw format and only use nl2br for displaying.

[jordanwb]

That's a good idea. Stupid me. :'(