Help with Script

[nigeledge]

I'm trying to write a script which will go through a string and replace occurrances of spaces with &nbsp; and occurances of newlines (\n) with a <br> tag. I tried using the replace() method, but it only replaces the first occurance.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[beetle]

the replace() method will work, but you need to use a pattern with the 'g' modifier (g is for global) for the search instead of a string

text = text.replace(/\n/g,"<br>");

[nigeledge]

I knew it had to be something simple :)

Thanks for your help.

[beetle]

no problem

Of course, I believe to make it fully compatible with all OSes, you'd need this

text = text.replace(/(\015\012)|(\015)|(\012)/g,"<br>");

Windows style newlines are like this:
<CR><LF> -> \r\n -> \015\012

Mac style like this:
<CR> -> \r -> \015

Unix style like this:
<LF> -> \n -> \012