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regx for newlines -- var regX = /\\n/g;

This was working for me, and now it isn't, and I can't remember what i
changed - the idea was to imitate the PHP command nl2br, which takes
newlines and turns them into newlines plus BR tags. Does anyone see
anything wrong with this?

function nl2br_js(myString){
var regX = /\\n/g;
var replaceString = '<br> \\n';
return myString.replace(regX, replaceString);
}

Feb 19 '06 #1
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Jake Barnes wrote:
This was working for me, and now it isn't, and I can't remember what i
changed - the idea was to imitate the PHP command nl2br, which takes
newlines and turns them into newlines plus BR tags. Does anyone see
anything wrong with this?

function nl2br_js(myString){
var regX = /\\n/g;
var replaceString = '<br> \\n';
return myString.replace(regX, replaceString);
}


function nl2br_js(myString){
var regX = /\n/g;
var replaceString = '<br>\n';
return myString.replace(regX, replaceString);
}
JW
Feb 19 '06 #2

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