javascript: replace linebreak

Question

I'm having a string which contains a chr(13) as linebreak. How can i replace it with eg. <br>? I tried mystring.replace("\n","<br>"); but it didn't work

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

"\n" is chr(10). I think you want "\r":

mystring.replace("\r", "<br>");

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Updated: To replace ALL \r use a regular expression:

mystring.replace(/\r/g, "<br>");

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If you want it to work with Windows, Unix and Mac style line breaks use this:

mystring.replace(/\r?\n|\r/g, "<br>");