twiztedazn Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 hey, i'm not quite sure what to do here. here's my problem, I'm reading in a munch of information from a form. one of the fields is a <textarea>. when people press the "enter" key, and the information has been inserted in the file, the string "^M" frequently shows up, and it's on multiple lines. I've been trying to remove the "^M" and put it in one line. nut have been unsuccessful. can any1 help me out?? what's in the file xxx-xxx-xxx|name1|name2|these lines seem^M to have^M stuff in it that^M don't want what i want/need xxx-xxx-xxx|name1|name2|hese lines seem to have stuff in it that dont wat any help would be appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffin Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 $body_of_textarea=preg_replace("\s"," ",$body_of_textarea); those ^M are \n newlines \s in a preg_ statement is whitespace spaces, tabs, newlines, and carriage returns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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