change new line to break except last line in php

Question

I can convert the "newlines" to the HTML line breaks using nl2br($test) command, but I want the command to convert all the newlines except the last one. I don't want any breaks after the last line. Could you please help me on this?

@hakre that doesn't look like an obvious duplicate, as there are additional steps to answer *this* question — Rowland Shaw, Apr 03 '15 at 07:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 03 '15 at 11:09

You can use this example:

When you convert your string with nl2br and the function adds a <br /> at the end of the resulting string; then you can just eliminate the last <br /> with either substr or rtrim functions:

<?php
$string = "This\r\nis\n\ra\n\rtest\n\r";
$string = trim(nl2br($string));


echo $string;
echo "<br>\n";
echo substr($string, 0, -6);
echo "<br>\n";
echo rtrim($string, '<br />');

?>

change new line to break except last line in php

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