Since you're putting real newline tags in, it's quite possible that other people might look at these entries. With that in mind, your substitute should keep things readable. Suppose my input looks like this: 
Foo
Bar
Foobar

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Then the actual string is "Foo\nBar\nFoobar\n". If I just ran a simple s/\n/<br>/g on the string, I'd get this output: 
Foo<br>Bar<br>Foobar<br>

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Clearly this would get illegible after 20 or so entries. So use a subtitute like this instead: s/\n/<br>\n/g
Your output should look like this: 
Foo<BR>
Bar<BR>
Foobar<BR>

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-Ted

In reply to For readability... by tedv
in thread substitute an enter with regular expressions by Anonymous Monk

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