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converting all newline characters to br tag

Posted by Akhil Bansal on Aug - 7 - 2006 - 5 Comments

I was surprised as there is no function in ruby to convert all newline characters to <br>.

Here is a php nl2br equivalent method to convert all newline characters (\n) to break tag (<br>) in a string.

 def nl2br(s)
s.gsub(/\\n/, '<br>')
end

5 Responses so far.

  1. Pratik says:
    August 8, 2006 at 2:42 pm

    def nl2br(s)
    s.gsub(/\n/, ”)
    end

    This would be more appropriate :)

    Reply
  2. Akhil Bansal says:
    August 18, 2006 at 12:30 pm

    This will remove all new line characters not replace them by &lt;br&gt; :-)

    Reply
  3. Stian says:
    May 18, 2007 at 8:01 pm

    I believe he was reffering to the /\n/ part. Since /n/ will remove all n-characthers and replace them with :P

    Reply
  4. AlSquire says:
    May 21, 2007 at 11:51 pm

    simple_format text helper do the trick
    http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M000623

    Reply
  5. Nadeem Yasin says:
    August 4, 2011 at 1:38 pm

    for development in rails, just use simple_format(str) function.
    Its really simple..

    Reply

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