nl2br

Written by Balazs Halasy, 02/05/2004 Updated 01/14/2008 by Graham Brookins Maintainers: Balazs Halasy, Julia Shymova

Summary

Returns the input string with all newlines converted to HTML breaks.

input|nl2br()

A string with HTML breaks.

This operator takes a string as input. It replaces newline characters/sequences with HTML break tags and returns a modified version of the input.

{'The lazy
cat
jumps over
the quick rat.'|nl2br()}

The following output will be produced:

The lazy<br />cat<br />jumps over<br />the quick rat.

Written by readers of the earlier documentation sites, kept as they were.

|break()

pike · 06/03/2009 02:13 pm

like break(), sequences of newlines becomes sequences of <br/> (4.0.3)

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