exeptions for nl2br --> preg_replace??

[Marco Snoek]

Hi,

Hope you can help me out with this one..

nl2br($string) converts all the \n to <br \>

... but ..

Suppose I have a table or other HTML elements in $string..
All the TD> and TR> and FORM> are trailed by <br />

How can I adjust the function:
preg_replace("/\r\n|\r|\n/", "<br>\n", $r[body])

to ignore lines ending with >
(or: > n spaces )
Thanx in advance,
Marco Snoek

[Andy Hassall]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:21:33 +0100, "Marco Snoek"
<_[mps]@[webmind.nl]_Dont_you_dare_send.spam> wrote:

Hope you can help me out with this one..

nl2br($string) converts all the \n to <br \>

.. but ..

Suppose I have a table or other HTML elements in $string..
All the TD> and TR> and FORM> are trailed by <br />

How can I adjust the function:
preg_replace("/\r\n|\r|\n/", "<br>\n", $r[body])

to ignore lines ending with >
(or: > n spaces )

I think you're heading into trouble with this approach; what about the
following perfectly valid HTML:

<form method="get"
action="something.php"
name="whatever">

You've now got a whole load of other exceptions to deal with.

The idea of nl2br is to convert _non-HTML_ text data containing newlines to an
HTML equivalent that has <br> elements so that it has newlines in the same
place when inserted into an HTML document.

In general, you can't parse HTML with a single regular expression, as regular
expressions aren't capable of maintaining states as necessary to implement a
HTML parser.

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[Marco Snoek]

You're absolutely right..
But....
I'm quite sure the trick should work.. I enter the input myself :-)

Can you think of a reg_exp ???

Regards...

Marco
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On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:21:33 +0100, "Marco Snoek"
<_[mps]@[webmind.nl]_Dont_you_dare_send.spam> wrote:

Hope you can help me out with this one..

nl2br($string) converts all the \n to <br \>

.. but ..

Suppose I have a table or other HTML elements in $string..
All the TD> and TR> and FORM> are trailed by <br />

How can I adjust the function:
preg_replace("/\r\n|\r|\n/", "<br>\n", $r[body])

to ignore lines ending with >
(or: > n spaces )
I think you're heading into trouble with this approach; what about the
following perfectly valid HTML:

<form method="get"
action="something.php"
name="whatever">

You've now got a whole load of other exceptions to deal with.

The idea of nl2br is to convert _non-HTML_ text data containing newlines

to an HTML equivalent that has <br> elements so that it has newlines in the same
place when inserted into an HTML document.

In general, you can't parse HTML with a single regular expression, as regular expressions aren't capable of maintaining states as necessary to implement a HTML parser.

--
Andy Hassall <an**@andyh.co.uk> / Space: disk usage analysis tool
<http://www.andyh.co.uk> / <http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space>

[Pedro Graca]

Marco Snoek wrote:

Can you think of a reg_exp ???

You need the "lookbehind" stuff.

Open this URLi: http://www.php.net/manual/en/pcre.pattern.syntax.php
and search "lookbehind" in that page
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