Search and replace Carriage Returns CR in Data Bindings

Wappler General
#1

How can I do a search and replace for this Carriage Return character?
'↵'

Here is a typical result in a Data Binding

N/S/F Wing + Liner + Trim ↵N/S/F Door + Foil + Trim ↵N/S/R Door + Foils ↵N/S/R Road Wheel + Tyre ↵Trims Clips and Sundries

I have tried this but doesn’t work

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In PHP I can do this ('str_replace') which does work

<?php echo str_replace(array("\r\n\r\n", "\r\n", "\r", "\n", ","),"<br>",$_SESSION['for_PDF']['meth_replace']); ?>
#2

Hey @UKRiggers , did you work out the answer to this? I have the same problem!

PHP Server Action Replacing \n with \\n
#3

I know this is one option I used

dmx-bind:value="sc_ad_job_q.data.sa_q_job_q.meth_specialist.replace(',', '\r')"
#4

@UKRiggers, that is good for creating a new line…

I want to replace a new line created from a textarea with a <br>… did you find a way to do this?

Or @teodor, can you help us here?

I’ve tried:

.replace('\n', '<br>')
.replace('\\n', '<br>')
.replace('\r', '<br>')
.replace('\r\n', '<br>')

I’m using PHP…

#5

Will it not work the other way round?

.replace('\r', '<br>')

Scrap that then :smile:

#6

try

.replace(/\r?\n/g, '<br>')
#7

@patrick, that doesn’t work either!

.replace(/\r?\n/g,'<br>')
#8

Seems that php doesn’t support regexp like app connect. The .replace('\n', '<br>') should work.

Please check directly in the generated php file what the expression is, I noticed when I tested that in my test case the \n did get escaped to \\n in the code.

#9

Hi there @patrick…

Yes, I’ve been able to fix it by replacing \\n to \n in the PHP source code.

That is not an easy fix to sustain, as it resets to \\n whenever I do a save of the server action file!

Best wishes,
Antony.

#10

I’ve submitted a bug report!