Help with preg_replace and regexp

[makaiguy]

Working on a small PHP mailer form project on Apache v1.3.36 to sent html-formatted mail.

Form is POSTed with message text in a textarea named COMMENT. Some code I'm adapting uses the following to strip linefeeds and replace with html breaks:

$comment = preg_replace("/\n/","\n<BR>",$_POST[COMMENT]);

Only problem is that any apostrophes in the submitted message get a \ inserted before them. Thus "it's" becomes "it\'s" in the received mail.

I don't know beans about regular expressions. Can anybody help straighten this out?

Or is there something else that needs to be done to have apostrophes show up correctly?