replace \n with actual new line character code

Question

I'm pulling content from a DB that has been sanitized using mysql_real_escape_string. Accordingly the new line characters now appear as "\n". The issue is that this content is displayed to users inside a < pre > tag so I cannot replace \n with < br/> for instance.

I suppose I could replace \n with the actual utf8 character code before inserting the result inside the < pre>.

Can somoneone assist here? Not using mysql_real_escape_string isn't really an option due to security policy.

Thanks.

Answer 1

str_replace("\\n","\n",$data);

Answer 2

echo '<pre>'.str_replace('\n', "\n", $string).'</pre>';

Answer 3

This might help a bit:

echo('test\ntest'); shows as

test test

but echo("test\ntest"); shows as

test

test

Answer 4

I'm pulling content from a DB that has been sanitized using mysql_real_escape_string. Accordingly the new line characters now appear as "\n"

If you've not done anything to the raw data pulled back from the database then the ptoblem is that it has been 'sanitized' twice when inserted.

C.

Answer 5

why not ...

echo str_replace('\\n', PHP_EOL, "few lines\nof text here,\nblah, blah! etc!");