1.0.1 • Published 6 years ago
replace-new-lines v1.0.1
Replace New Lines
Motivation
When text from textarea are stored into DB, retrieved, and put into html, new line symbols does't make new line. Instead, they only make a space, which largely affect the readability. Want to tranform these text into paragraphs.
Solutions
Two solutions are <br> and <p></p>.
Replace new line symbols \n or \r\n with <br> or transform them into paragraphs.
Functions
There are three functions.
breakWithBreak: Transform text string with \r\n \n line breaks into strings with breaks, replace \r\n and \n with <br>
split: split text string by \r\n or \n into a list of strings
toParagraph: Transform text string containing \r\n or \n to a string of many paragraphs, separated with <p></p>