MAC new line?

[Admin]

i have a <textarea> input field i am using to collect userdata. when i am parsing through the data, most text (windows & linux) is just fine. however, when a MAC user submits something its just 1 big bunch of text. i am replacing "\n" with "<br>" when displaying the text.

do macs send newlines in a different format?

i havent looked anywhere else, just figured someone on here would konw.

[joe_bruin]

for newlines:
unix uses linefeed ('\n')
macs use carriage return ('\r')
windows uses carriage return + linefeed ('\r\n')

however, some browsers may do translations of text fields.

[Admin]

Thanks! I will check out the \r route tonight.

[Admin]

Is there a standard way for me to replace all new lines with a different character? I simply changed my \n to \r but want to make sure this works for EVERYONE not just Windows and Mac. I need to implement something that takes everything info account.

[sde]

\n\r ?

[Admin]

here is what I have now.

PHP Code:

//this really come out of the database
//but you get the idea
$foo = "this is something
this is something else
cool
sweet
yess
noooo";

$foo = explode("\r","$foo");

//do some stuff to that array here 


when i 'explode' the string, i want it to work out for all cases of a new line (\n,\r,\n\r)

[sde]

will \n\r work for both pc/mac ? if so, i'd do something like this:

PHP Code:

<?
$string = str_replace("\\n","{newline}",$string);
$string = str_replace("\\r","{newline}",$string);
$string = str_replace("{newline}","\\r\\n",$string);
?>

[joe_bruin]

Originally posted by sde
will \n\r work for both pc/mac ? if so, i'd do something like this:

PHP Code:

<?
$string = str_replace("\n","{newline}",$string);
$string = str_replace("\r","{newline}",$string);
$string = str_replace("{newline}","\r\n",$string);
?>

close. change the order and it works fine.

PHP Code:

<?
$string = str_replace("\r\n","{newline}",$string);
$string = str_replace("\n","{newline}",$string);
$string = str_replace("\r","{newline}",$string);
?>

[Admin]

thanks joe, that looks like it will work perfect!