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Convert BR to Newline

Technique #1

function br2newline( $input ) {
     $out = str_replace( "<br>", "\n", $input );
     $out = str_replace( "<br/>", "\n", $out );
     $out = str_replace( "<br />", "\n", $out );
     $out = str_replace( "<BR>", "\n", $out );
     $out = str_replace( "<BR/>", "\n", $out );
     $out = str_replace( "<BR />", "\n", $out );
     return $out;
}

Converts a break tag to a newline - no matter what kind of HTML is being processed.

Technique #2

function br2nl( $input ) {
 return preg_replace('/<br(\s+)?\/?>/i', "\n", $input);
}

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Adam Haskell says:
04/12/2010 at 9:59 am
Technique #2 will work a lot better than #1
But in #1, you could just use the first three calls and use str_ireplace() instead.
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Vicky says:
08/18/2010 at 11:35 am
I’m suffered a lot. A used ” but I should use ‘. Could it be really a mistake?
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