From 08161e09e21b0e002325550db8bf653a72c8d362 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Paul S. Owen" <psotfx@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:01:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] I hate regexps ...

git-svn-id: file:///svn/phpbb/trunk@4491 89ea8834-ac86-4346-8a33-228a782c2dd0
---
 phpBB/includes/functions_user.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/phpBB/includes/functions_user.php b/phpBB/includes/functions_user.php
index 91445d8df2..f12bf21627 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/functions_user.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/functions_user.php
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ function request_var($var_name, $default)
 		// not generally applicable elsewhere
 		if ($type == 'string')
 		{
-			$var = trim(preg_replace("#\s{2,}#s", ' ', strtr($var, array_flip(get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES)))));
+			$var = trim(stripslashes(preg_replace(array("#[ \xFF]{2,}#s", "#[\r\n]{2,}#s"), array(' ', "\n"), strtr($var, array_flip(get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES))))));
 		}
 
 		return $var;