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Inserts HTML Line Breaks Before All Newlines In A String

08.26.2011
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class String
  def nl2br!
    self.gsub("\n\r","<br />").gsub("\r", "").gsub("\n", "<br />")
  end
end


Example:

text 'line_1
line_2'.nl2br!


Result in HTML:

line_1
<br />
line_2

Comments

Snippets Manager replied on Wed, 2009/09/30 - 11:44am

self.gsub("\r?\n","
").
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