in reply to converting carriage returns to <br> tags (was: Simple Question for you guys)

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Re: Re: Simple Question for you guys.
by Sifmole (Chaplain) on May 18, 2001 at 17:28 UTC
    No it won't. The tr/// operator works on individual characters. You would likely want to use an s///.
    The tr/\n/<BR>/s; will actually translate all newlines into '<'.. not quite what the asker wanted I am sure.