Linebreak problems when copy&paste from word

[Georg Weiler]

Hi,

I have a form, where the user enters text. After submit, the text is
then inserted into a PostgreSQL database. So far, so good.

The problem is, that most of my users copy&paste their text from MS Word
into the textbox. Now I have these (hidden) linebreaks in the string
that cause trouble when I furter process the text.

Is there a way (maybe just a simple PHP command) to get rid of these
formating things. I presume I would have to kind of "convert" the string
to unformatted text somehow.

Thanks for your input,
georg

[ZeldorBlat]

Figure out what characters are causing the problem and use
str_replace():

<http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php>

You can then replace any characters you don't want with something else
(like an empty string). With the weird hidden characters, you may need
to use ord() and chr() to figure out what the ASCII values are.

[Georg Weiler]

ZeldorBlat wrote:

Figure out what characters are causing the problem and use
str_replace():

<http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php>

You can then replace any characters you don't want with something else
(like an empty string). With the weird hidden characters, you may need
to use ord() and chr() to figure out what the ASCII values are.

If you look at the first two 'User Contributed Notes' on this page:

http://at.php.net/manual/en/function.ord.php

Could one of those two help me with my problem (the linebreaks)? I only
see them removing quotes etc.

What is the linebreak code, I have ro replace?

thanks a lot,
georg