Question

Given the following text in a textarea:

Line 1 stuff.. Line 1 stuff.. Line 1 stuff.. Line 1 stuff.. Line 1 stuff.. 

Line 2 stuff.. Line 2 stuff.. Line 2 stuff.. Line 2 stuff.. Line 2 stuff.. 

I want to convert the new lines to <BR> tags, not use the simple_format <P> tags…

So I tried:

 str = str.gsub("\r\n", '<br>')

Problem is this is making two <BR> tags:

<div class="message">line 1<br><br>Line 2</div>

How can make just one <BR> tag?

Answer 1

str = str.gsub(/[\r\n]+/, "<br>")

This will turn any number of consecutive \r and/or \n characters into a single <br>.