replacing spaces with newline

[Simon Hall]

Hi Guys,

I am new to PHP and I am trying to clean up some text, what I am looking to do is to create a new line at each space, I have tried the following but it still outputs with just spaces.

<?php

$file = file_get_contents("mytext.txt");

$file = Str_replace(" ", "\r\n", $file);

echo $file;

?>

Any ideas?


Cheers


Simon

[Denis McMahon]

On Sat, 04 May 2013 04:09:06 -0700, Simon Hall wrote:

> $file = Str_replace(" ", "\r\n", $file);

Last time I checked, it was str_replace, not Str_replace. You don't need
the \r on all operating systems. Some operating systems that I understand
may require the \r may also use 0xa0 instead of 0x20 for a space under
some circumstances.

--
Denis McMahon, denismf...@gmail.com

[bill]

When displaying in a browser multiple spaces/tabs/newlines are
all rendered as 1 space. If you want the _display_ to treat
spaces as newlines use the html line break:
$file = Str_replace(" ", <br />", $file);
or keep what you have and use

$file = nl2br($file)

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

bill

[Jeff North]

On Sat, 4 May 2013 04:09:06 -0700 (PDT), in comp.lang.php Simon Hall
<hall.s...@gmail.com>

If you are outputting to html then the \r\n are ignored so you could
use: echo nl2br( $file );

[Simon Hall]

Thanks guys, it was going to be going to a text file anyway. Was me just being an idiot the output was correctly formatted in a text file rather than the output of echo in the webpage.

Thank you for the responses, we live and learn :)