Question

I need to know if there’s a way in PHP to echo a string with every char.

For instance

/n

and the likes.

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Edit for clarification:

When I have a webform and I submit it and I have this text:

I am stupid
and I cannot
explain myself

The text would be like this:

I am stupid /n and I cannot /n explain myself

If I use:

nl2br

I get:

I am stupid <br /> and I cannot <br /> explain myself

Now I have users that input some messed up texts and I need to clean it and put it inside an array. I would love to be able to print to screen every special char such as /n.

Answer 1

I think he means that instead of seeing a newline when a string contains ‘\n’ he wants to see the ‘\n’ as two characters, a ‘\’ and an ‘n’.

json_encode works well for this purpose:

echo json_encode("spam\nand eggs");
>> "spam\nand eggs"