New Line special character CRISIS!

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Please help me. <br />
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I have written a discussion board that accepts text from a user and saves it to a sql database. <br />
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When the data is sent from the clients browser to the server it performs the following functions:<br />
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reply1 = replace(reply1,"'","''") <br />
reply1 = replace(reply1,". ",".<br>")<br />
reply1 = replace(reply1,"; ",";<br>")<br />
reply1 = replace(reply1,"? ","?<br>")<br />
reply1 = replace(reply1," ","<br><br>")<br />
reply1 = replace(reply1,"??????","<br><br>")<br />
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obviously to do all the neccessary changes so that when it gets displayed it will be displayed like it was written. <br />
I can't get a "\n" character or line break or new paragraph to work. Please help. I am in deep crap if it does not work soooon.<br />
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Please help me to figure out what I am supposed to enter in the space of the '???????' to get it replaced with <br><br> or </p>.<!--content-->Are you trying to make the text have the line breaks that it had when input?<br />
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If so, have you tried the nl2br() function?<br />
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nl2br($data);<br />
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I'm kinda assuming your using PHP here by the way! <!--content-->