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

Answer 1

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 2

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

Answer 3

This might help a bit:

echo('test\ntest'); shows as

test test

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

test

test

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

why not ...

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