multiline cell in table

in shortcode.php
i u want to preserve layout of a multiline cell
\r\n becomes <br /> in html

//The content
	$tbody_content = explode('[-%row%-]' , $content); //explode each row
		while ($row_counter <= $numrow) {
			if ($odd_row_counter%2) { $table .= '<tr class="table-alternate row' . $row_counter . '"> '; } else { $table .= '<tr class= "table-noalt row' . $row_counter . '">'; }
			$odd_row_counter++;
			$col_counter = 1;
			unset($cell);
			if (isset($tbody_content[$row_counter-1])) {
				$cell = explode('[-%cell%-]' , $tbody_content[$row_counter-1]); //explode each cell
			}
			while ($col_counter <= $numcol) {
				if ($col_counter == 1) {
					$table .= '<td id="n' . $col_counter . '" class="start">';
				} else {
					$table .= '<td id="n' . $col_counter . '" >';
				}
				if (isset($cell[$col_counter-1])) {
					$var=	$cell[$col_counter-1];
					$var = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), "<br/>", $var);
					$table .= stripslashes($var); }
				$table .= '</td>';
				$col_counter++;
				$cell_counter++;
			}
			$table .= '</tr>';
			$row_counter++;
		}

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