Hi

I have a text formatting functon that among other things converts line breaks with nl2br($string) but doing this means anything inside <pre> tags becomes double-spaced, so i either want to ignore anything inside <pre> tags or convert <br /> back to /n i tried several things but can't seem to get this working.


function br2nl($str) {
return preg_replace('!<br.*>!iU',"\n",$str);
}

function textFormat($str)
{
# lots of stuff here bbcode etc

$str = nl2br($str);
$str = preg_replace("#\<pre>(.*)\<\/pre>#si", "<pre>".br2nl('\\1')."</pre>", $str);

return $str;
}


Hope that makes sense, although br2nl works on its on, and the expression works if i try something like "<pre>".strtoupper('abc')."</pre>" but they don't want to work together.

grr, why does vBulletin remove slashes in code tags? the preg_replace line looks nothing like that, seems like i can't post it. =\

$str = preg_replace("#\<pre>(.*)\<\/pre>#si", "<pre>".br2nl('\\1')."</pre>", $str);


there ..

Hi,

you might want to try:preg_replace_callback() (http://php.net/preg_replace_callback)