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How can I echo line breaks inside a textarea? \n and \r\n just print as text.

Jul 19th, 2001 22:04
Steph Bairey,

I'm using:

if(strstr($var,"<br>")) { $var = str_replace('<br>','&#013;', $var);}

Will that cause problems for different platforms?