How to break to a new line when string contains "↵"?

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I got a string like this var text = "aaaaaaa↵bbbbbb↵cccccc" from the php server, and I want to output this string to the screen.

When there is a "↵", the following text goes to a new line. I am using AngularJS.

How can I achieve this by using plain Javascript or through AngularJS?

@GeorgeStocker you are misising a `/` at beginning of `\u21B5/g` — levi, Aug 03 '16 at 01:59
style=" white-space: pre-wrap; " you can use css for wrapping — Armen Asaduryan, Jun 13 '19 at 08:42

levi · Answer 1 · 2016-08-03T01:59:01.940

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Try to use replace function. It's pure javascript.

text.replace(/\u21B5/g,'<br/>')

21B5 is the unicode for ↵

edited Aug 03 '16 at 01:59

answered Aug 03 '16 at 01:50

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None of these solutions work for me... Its like the `↵` does not exist so it cant be replaced. I can only see it on the browser console. – Omar Oct 14 '19 at 20:34

MaieonBrix · Answer 2 · 2016-08-03T02:13:54.657

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You can easily do that by doing a regex:

var text = "aaaaaaa↵bbbbbb↵cccccc";

text.replace(/↵/, '<br/>');

this will only replace the first one, by adding the g (global) parameter we will replace any occurence of this symbol, we simply put the g after the / like so 
text.replace(/↵/g, '<br/>');

Basically here we store the data in a variable called text then we use the string/regex method called replace on it .replace() that takes two parameters: the pattern to search and with what we are going to replace it;

edited Aug 03 '16 at 02:13

answered Aug 03 '16 at 01:51

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this remplaces only the first occurrence. – levi Aug 03 '16 at 02:00
Yeah my bad, you must add the g parameters which stands for global and that will search for any occurence and then replace it: text.replace(/↵/g, '
'); – MaieonBrix Aug 03 '16 at 02:11

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 02 '19 at 23:30

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var newString = mystring.replace(/↵/g, "<br/>");
alert(newString);

You can find more here.

edited Jan 02 '19 at 23:30

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answered Aug 03 '16 at 01:52

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 03 '16 at 01:53

Use str.split([separator[, limit]]) : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/split

var text = "aaaaaaa↵bbbbbb↵cccccc";
for(var i=0;i<text.split('↵').length;i++){
    // use text[i] to print the text the way you want
    // separated by <br>, create a new div element, whatever you want
    console.log(text[i]); 
}

How to break to a new line when string contains "↵"?

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