I get That php.net <pre>

[prokhaled]

Have you ever wanted to remove the '<br />' tags between
'<pre>' and '</pre>' tags after a call to nl2br()? I just
figured out how to do this and thought others would benefit.

$html = preg_replace(
"/(<pre>)([\w\W]*)(<\/pre>)/e",
"'\\1'.str_replace('<br />','','\\2').'\\3'",
$html);

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I want to do same with <textarea> .. I try this code

$html = preg_replace(
"/(<textarea>)([\w\W]*)(<\/textarea>)/e",
"'\\1'.str_replace('<br />','','\\2').'\\3'",
$html);

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but it does not work ... Why ?