replace br tag from a string in php

Question

I have the following string. I want to replace the line break with /n

Good FRIENDS are hard to find,
 harder to leave,


        

Answer 1

preg_replace("/<br\W*?\/>/", "\n", $your_string);

Answer 2

Have you tried str_replace?

str_replace("<br />", "\n", $your_string);

Answer 3

You can also try below regex:

$string = preg_replace( '@^(<br\\b[^>]*/?>)+@i', '', $string );

Answer 4

Use This function

   function separate( $str,$subStr, $count )
  {
     $formatStr = '';
     $start=0;
     $num = 1;
     while(!(strpos($str,$subStr,$start) === null))
     { 
       $first = strpos($str,$subStr,$start);
       if ($first < $start)
          break; 
       $newStr = substr($str,$start,$first - $start + 1 );
       $formatStr .= $newStr;
       if ($num % $count == 0)
          $formatStr .= '<br>';
       $num ++;
       $start = $first +1;
     }
     return $formatStr;
  }

Example

$str = 'AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD.EEE.FFF.CCC';
echo separate ($str,'.', 3);

Output

AAA.BBB.CCC.
DDD.EEE.FFF.

Answer 5

Use str_replace

$text = str_replace("<br />", "\n", $text);

If there is actually a line break within the <br /> tag as in your sample code, try this:

$text = preg_replace("/<br\n\W*\/>/", "\n", $text);