String.replace()

[trundrumbalind]

Hi guys,
Ok I have an input text field with htmlText set to false.
Now, I want to grab data from the text field but I want to convert line breaks to "<br />". I used this code...

textDescription.text.replace("\r", "<br />");
Which works fine for the first line break but any breaks after that aren't replaced. Any ideas?

[amarghosh]

check this:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/String.html#replace( (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/String.html#replace%28))

String.replace() method Matches the specified pattern against the string and returns a new string in which the first match of pattern is replaced with the content specified by repl.

[trundrumbalind]

Just to let anyone else with this problem know, I just wrapped the above code with a "while (textDescription.text.indexOf("<br />") != -1)" loop...