Re: Mysterious missing newlines ...

dbee wrote:
Hi,

So I'm having a problem with disappearing newlines. I import the
newlines from a file into my shell script fine. But then I process the
text and the url_encode comes out the other end with linefeeds intact
but no newlines.

Also any single quotes in my file give me a T_STRING unexpected error
in my output ... even though I'm using rawurlencode(). I've tried
escaping them in my text but no luck there.
I can live without the single quotes, but I need newlines in my output.

URL="`cat job_description`"

URL_ENCODED_DESCRIPTION=`php -r "echo rawurlencode('$URL');"`

... the single quotes works fine - the php function returns a value -
so that's not a problem.

Can anyone help me get a urlencoded string with newlines intact ?
Otherwise I'm just left with a lump of text.
Also I can't use <br> or \n in my output because my message board won't
parse them ... :-)


I think I answered something like this before. My suggestion was to simply encode newlines using your own method. Make some escape key that would act as a newline.

Carl

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