PHP - how can I show \n \0 \t \x0B \r

php hidden-characters
Phill Pafford picture Phill Pafford · Feb 18, 2010 · Viewed 7.2k times · Source

How can I show these characters on a webpage?

Answer

Yada picture Yada · Feb 18, 2010 
// An example to replace all newlines with their character equivalent
$value = preg_replace('/[\r\n]+/', '\n', $value);
echo htmlentities($value);

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