\n"; $content .= "\n"; $content .= "\n"; $content .= "\n"; $content .= "\n"; $content .= "#something#\n"; $content .= "\n"; $content .= "#name#\n"; $content .= "\n"; $content .= "#name#\n"; $content .= "\n"; $content .= "\n"; /* first just to make it easier make function left() */ function left($string, $count){ return substr($string, 0, $count); } function replace($string) { //your replace function here return $string; } $rplvar = 0; //first to make rplvar 0 //ok here we replace the \n with a char sign in the string //the char is chr(13) this stands for return $content = str_replace("\n",chr(13),$content); //first we need to save the spaces and make them in to a char we will use later on again to make it back to a space $content = str_replace(chr(32),chr(160),$content); //now we are going to make this chr(13) in to chr(32) //chr(32) stands for space $content = str_replace(chr(13),chr(32),$content); /* here we go first count the words */ $counter = count(explode(" ", $content)); $match = explode(" ", $content); // explode to match $i = 1; for (; ; ) { if ($i > $counter) { break; } $j = $i - 1; // match starts at 0 instead of 1 where count starts at 1 so we need to do minus 1 to get the correct match $myvar = $match[$i]; $myvar = str_replace(chr(160),chr(32),$myvar); //ok we need to return the char 160 back to a space. if ($myvar == "") { $rplvar = 0; } if ($rplvar == 0) { echo replace($myvar); } else { echo $myvar; } $i++; } ?>