\r\n in a textbox

you need to replace \r\n with br tags:

echo str_replace("\r\n","<br />", $str);

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textboxes take literal text...you would have to use:  <br />

hielo again!!!  we always meet this way...:0P

Check the PHP function called nl2br()
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

HTH, ~Ray

the problem is that in database it looks like this

ABC
DE
FG

I do not see and \r\n

but when I echo it I see there. I tried heilos method but no go
I am trying rays now.
Thanks

perhaps your data contains just \n not \r\n:
echo str_replace("\n","<br />", $str);

when I echo my variable

echo $var;

it gives me
ABC
\r\nDE
\r\nFG


I tried all methids but still no go

so this has to do more with what symbol the db is actually spitting out...

try this: echo "$var";

Try

echo "<pre>";
echo stripslashes($var);
echo "</pre>";

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that didn't do anything either

syedasimmeesaq: What "didn't do anything either?"  Please post what you did and what output you got, OK?  We are just experts, not mind readers!  Thanks, ~Ray

Ray, he was probably on an old page when he was tryin your code...so I think he means yours and didn't see NoiS yet...actually they should probably have a refresh button/trigger to prevent that type of confusion...

they meaning: Experts-Exchange...

Yeah, that makes sense.  I'll stand by and wait for clarification and sample output.

echo "$var"; didn't do anything. Also I made a discovery when I do this
echo str_replace("r","<br />", $var); only then it put it in the next line but the problem is that it still gives a slash before next line and in next line it enters \n

thanks
Also <PRE> didn't work either

ok got it

str_replace("\\r\\n","<br />", $var);

since its closest to heilos suggestion, I think he desrves the points
Thank you all for your help

try this:
echo str_replace('\r\n',"<br />", $str);

notice the apostrophes around \r\n, NOT double quotes

nice job syedasimmee&

figured it out yourself...good going...

You are missing something;

if your text was saved on database with \r\n and magic_quotes are ON on PHP, it will escape with one more slashe, so, when you echo the $var only one slash will be removed. This is the correct behaviour. But if for some strange reason (possibly an error bettwen POST and retrieve)  when you retrieve the data are putting twice, You need to treat it.

the code below MUST print differente results

echo $var . "<br >";
 
echo stripslashes($var) . "<br >";
 
echo preg_replace("#(\r|\n|\\r|\\n)#","<br />",$var);

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My Post was late...

plus Hielo was the reason we got to the solution in the first place...