Linebreaks not being recognised in output string

[ATCO]

Hi everyone.

I am trying to create a short script to output a string of co-ordinates. The code is pasted below from my file, which is named blah.php:

[php]<?php

$coorda = $_POST[“coord”];

if ($coorda != null)
{
$coorda = strtr($coorda, “:”," “);
$coorda = strtr($coorda, “COORD:”,”\n");
echo $coorda;

}

else echo “Enter co-ordinates below”;

?>

Enter here: [/php]

The intention of this code is to take a series out co-ordinates from a textarea, which will be in the following format:

COORD:N053.02.42.847:W003.01.51.446 COORD:N053.04.55.747:W002.48.54.757 COORD:N052.59.50.525:W002.48.30.004 COORD:N052.57.59.275:W003.13.7.085 COORD:N053.02.5.224:W003.09.45.498 COORD:N053.01.2.134:W002.59.49.327

And output them thus:

N053.02.42.847 W003.01.51.446 N053.04.55.747 W002.48.54.757 N052.59.50.525 W002.48.30.004 N052.57.59.275 W003.13.7.085 N053.02.5.224 W003.09.45.498 N053.01.2.134 W002.59.49.327

Thereby removing ‘COORD’ and the two instances of ‘:’. So instead of,

COORD:N052.57.59.275:W003.13.7.085

we need

N052.57.59.275 W003.13.7.085

{space}N052.57.59.275{space}W003.13.7.085.

However I have an issue here. The output will not put each of the two co-ordinates on their own line.
[php]$coorda = strtr($coorda, “COORD:”,"\n");[/php]

The “\n” linebreak isn’t being parsed in the script for some reason. So the output is:

  N053.02.42.847 W003.01.51.446 N053.04.55.747 W002.48.54.757 N052.59.50.525 W002.48.30.004 N052.57.59.275 W003.13.7.085 N053.02.5.224 W003.09.45.498 N053.01.2.134 W002.59.49.327

Instead of:

N053.02.42.847 W003.01.51.446 N053.04.55.747 W002.48.54.757 N052.59.50.525 W002.48.30.004 N052.57.59.275 W003.13.7.085 N053.02.5.224 W003.09.45.498 N053.01.2.134 W002.59.49.327

Any ideas?

Many regards

[gluxon]

The line break are being recognized in your output string. The problem is with HTML line breaks.

The following code should do what you want.

[php]

<?php $coorda = $_POST["coord"]; if (isset($coorda)) { $coorda=str_replace("COORD:", "", $coorda); $coorda=str_replace(":", " ", $coorda); $coorda=str_replace("\n", "\n
", $coorda); echo $coorda; } else echo "Enter co-ordinates below"; ?> Enter here: [/php]

BTW, I recommend using str_replace instead of strst.