\n\r Not removed by PHP functions

On my home page, I display some info about the hikes (it is a hiking site) and embarassinlgy, the \r\n characters still show up.

I do these functons

$hike_description = htmlspecialchars ($hike_description);
$hike_description = nl2br($hike_description);

A开发者_Go百科nd still those characters do not go away. You can take a look yourself at http://www.comehike.com

Would you know what is the proper way to get rid of the \r\n characters? You can see it happening in the "Upcoming Hikes" section...on the 3rd hike.

Thanks!

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In your case, the following will work:

$hike_description = str_replace ( "\\r\\n","<br />", $hike_description);

The text \r\n is literal, rather than control characters.

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Try manually replacing the sequence

str_replace( "\r\n", "<br />", $hike_description );

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The \n\r in your page are not escape sequences... They are actually a \ character followed by a n character followed by a \ character followed by a r character.

In your database, you should store that as the actual characters, not the escape sequences. Then, calling nl2br() will work as expected.

Yes, you can do a str_replace(), however, you should instead fix the encoding of your data in your database. It will save you trouble in the future.