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Replace Newlines with BR, String Prototype

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This will need to be either embeded or included and you can then just use this as such

myNewString = myStringVariable.nl2br();

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  1. function nl2br(){
  2.  
  3. 	var text = escape(this);
  4. 	var re_nlchar = null;
  5.  
  6. 	if(text.indexOf('%0D%0A') > -1)
  7. 	{
  8. 		re_nlchar = /%0D%0A/g ;
  9. 	}
  10. 	else if(text.indexOf('%0A') > -1)
  11. 	{
  12. 		re_nlchar = /%0A/g ;
  13. 	}
  14. 	else if(text.indexOf('%0D') > -1)
  15. 	{
  16. 		re_nlchar = /%0D/g ;
  17. 	}
  18.  
  19. 	text = (re_nlchar != null) ? unescape(text.replace(re_nlchar,'<br />')) : unescape(text);
  20. 	return text
  21. }
  22.  
  23. String.prototype.nl2br = nl2br;

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