replacing line breaks with <br> 1

[sevex]

I have a piece of multiline text. I'm trying to replace the line breaks with:

<cfset address = Replace(address, &quot;#chr(13)##chr(10)#&quot;, &quot;<br>&quot; , &quot;all&quot>

<cfoutput>#address#</cfoutput>

But it doesn't seem to find the line breaks. ParagaphFormat doesn't work either, and puts an ugly large amount of extra space below the text.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[GunJack]

Hey Sevex,

Your code looks correct although I would suggest removing the #chr(13)# as this is only present in Windows text. If the text came from a Unix based system, the line breaks are represented by a single #chr(10)# and your replace won't match.

This should work the way you want as I just tested it.

<cfset address = Replace(address, #chr(10)#, &quot;<br>&quot; ,&quot;all&quot>

Let me know if this doesn't work,
GJ

 

[sevex]

Thanks but that didn't work for me. Input is coming from a windows machine in this situation.

In the html source the address is displaying on three separate lines like it should... this is so frustrating

 

[GunJack]

Do you show <br> tags at all in the source? I'm guessing not as it sounds like the line breaks are remaining which would cause the text to be displayed on separate lines in &quot;view source&quot;.

Paste this code just above the replace function and let me know what you see.

#find(chr(10),address)#

This function should output either 0 or some positive number to indicate where it found the linebreak character. It looks like it's not finding the linebreak character for some reason and I want to verify it's actually in your text string.

GJ

 

[sevex]

it displays &quot;20&quot; which appears to be correct, as that's where the first linebreak should be.

 

[GunJack]

You didn't say but I assume there are no &quot;<br>&quot;s in the code when you do a view source. If this is the case, then it appears the breaks are in the text and CF can find them but the replace isn't really replacing them. I would make certain you don't have the variable misspelled in the <cfset > statement.

Try this code and let me know what you see between the two horizontal rules. Also, let me know what you see inside &quot;view source&quot;. (put this before the <cfset > line)

<hr>
<cfoutput>#Replace(address, #chr(10)#, &quot;<br>&quot; ,&quot;all&quot#</cfoutput>
<hr>

GJ

 

[sevex]

that worked like a charm! thanks!

I'm guessing it had something to do with the fact that I was outputting a query? maybe when I set &quot;address&quot; to the new replaced address, it would still just output the original query address. whatever, it works. Thanks again for all your help.

 

[GunJack]

If &quot;address&quot; is just a variable and not a query, I would have expected your original code to work. If address is part of a query, that might explain your problem. I've never tried to change a query variable but my suspicion is it wouldn't work. Anyway, if it works now, that's good enough for me

Good luck,
GJ

 

[sevex]

I was calling it from within a <cfoutput query=&quot;whatever&quot;> so maybe I had to assign it <cfset whatever.address = &quot;replacedstuff&quot;>

If I ever run into it again I'll try it, but for now, I just don't care!