- str_replace: documentation ( source)
<?php
const COMMA = ',';
const EMPTY_STR = '';
$d = '\n';
$data = "1,2,3,$d,4,5,6,$d,7,8,9";
echo "data: $data\n";
$str = str_replace( array(COMMA,$d), array(EMPTY_STR,"\x0a"), $data);
echo $str,PHP_EOL; // unlike echo in bash, echo does not emit newline automatically