[pmwiki-users] Dumb question... stripping returns?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 01:15:04AM -0400, Russell Bailey wrote:
> I'd like to strip out extraneous carriage returns in user edits.  I'm
> having a devil of a time getting the replace string right,  though.  I'm
> pretty sure I'm making a simple error... anyone recognize it?
> 
> $new['text'] = str_replace("/[\n|\r]{2,}/", '\n', $new['text']);

str_replace doesn't do pattern matching -- just direct string
substitutions.  You probably want preg_replace:

   $new['text'] = preg_replace("/[\n\r]+/", "\n", $new['text']);

Pm