Question

I’m requesting data from a server and when I echo the response out onto the page there are no line breaks whatsoever, but when I view the page source there are line breaks.

How is this possible? (i.e. How am I seeing line breaks when I view the page source?)

Using the <pre> tags I can get the data to show up with line breaks on the page, but I would like to parse the string separating the lines and I’m trying to understand how to find the line breaks in the string.

Make sense?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You’re not seeing line breaks because HTML doesn’t render line breaks in markup. You specifically have to encode line breaks. The easiest ways is to replace \r\n with <br />