php - replace string occurrences

Question

I have a string \"First line | second line | third line\" How can I replace | with a new line character?

I\'m trying to use

Answer 1

Use this:

str_replace('|', PHP_EOL, $str);

You should use PHP_EOL instead of "\n" because PHP_EOL will always work on all server platforms. (NB. Windows uses "\r\n" and unix/linux uses "\n").

Answer 2

here it is

str_replace('|',"\n",$string);

when \n is placed in double qouted string it changes to a new line

Answer 3

Using strtr is a tad faster than str_replace or preg_replace.

echo strtr($string,'|', "\n");

Mind the double quotes around the \n.

Also, if you want to output HTML, a newline char is not sufficient, you need to replace it with <br /> tags.

echo str_replace("|", "<br />\n", $string);