txt files

[twiztedazn]

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

[laffin]

$body_of_textarea=preg_replace("\s"," ",$body_of_textarea);

 

those ^M are \n newlines

\s in a preg_ statement is whitespace spaces, tabs, newlines, and carriage returns.