I have a user input form that allows them to provide a description of
their request. Unfortunately when downloading and processing the data
their carriage returns \line feeds cause problems.

It is php on a Linux machine. I've tried the following:

$comment = nl2br($comment);
$comment = str_replace("<br>"," ",$comment);

And this

$order = array("\r\n", "\n", "\r");
$replace = ' ';
$comment = str_replace($order, $replace, $comment);

And this

$comment = str_replace("\r"," ",$comment);
$comment = str_replace("\n"," ",$comment);

but the output in the file always has a '^M' where the linefeed would
be:

999~05/25/2008~05/26/2008~3~test 3 after^M
before~argh!~A


Anyone know how to cleanly remove the offending CRLF

Thanks!
Jon

The textbox or other input form,
does not use either \n or <br>
it is text and carriage returns are represented by Ctrl-M (^M decimal
character 13 Hex 0D)
linefeeds are implied by carriage returns in many systems but are otherwise
represented by Ctrl-A (^A decimal character 10, hex 0A)
You could replace hex &#x0d, ^M, instead of \n <br> which are not present
in the data to be replaced,
the php to replace the control character is beyond me at 2 in the morning

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<bulldog8@lycos.com> wrote in message
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> I have a user input form that allows them to provide a description of
> their request. Unfortunately when downloading and processing the data
> their carriage returns \line feeds cause problems.
>
> It is php on a Linux machine. I've tried the following:
>
> $comment = nl2br($comment);
> $comment = str_replace("<br>"," ",$comment);
>
> And this
>
> $order = array("\r\n", "\n", "\r");
> $replace = ' ';
> $comment = str_replace($order, $replace, $comment);
>
> And this
>
> $comment = str_replace("\r"," ",$comment);
> $comment = str_replace("\n"," ",$comment);
>
> but the output in the file always has a '^M' where the linefeed would
> be:
>
> 999~05/25/2008~05/26/2008~3~test 3 after^M
> before~argh!~A
>
>
> Anyone know how to cleanly remove the offending CRLF
>
> Thanks!
> Jon