Trying to apply a function to form validation set_value [SOLVED, with thanks!]

[eluser]nuwanda[/eluser]
Thanks, stormbytes.

I assume you were suggesting I apply that to my validation rule, thus:

Code:

$this->form_validation->set_rules('link_description','link_desription','trim|strip_newlines);

then

Code:

function strip_newlines($field_name){
  return preg_replace ('/\r\n|\r|\n/', ' ',$field_name);
}

But, no, didn't help. The set_value still returned the text with breaks in the view. It didn't throw an error so it got processed. Weird. I thought it might work like trim does.