Re: Stings - textareas in Perl...

nobull_at_mail.com
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: 27 Mar 2005 20:14:36 -0800

Without any context joesplink wrote:

> I'll try to be less vague.

Please give context (quoted material) in your follow-up posts.

Also try to partition your problem - work out what is the question that
you are asking, and what is just the context in which the question
arrose.

> My PERL script gets input from a TEXTAREA
> that contains newlines. I can replace /\n/#/g and print the result
and
> see the #'s where I expect them. However, if I print the string (not
> replacing the \n's) by including it in an HTML document I send to the
> browser, it prints as a single line. How can I get it to print
showing
> the newlines as originally entered in the TEXTAREA???

It would appear that the question you are asking is how to represent a
newline in HTML.

This has nothing to do with Perl - it is a pure HTML question.

The representation of newline in HTML is <br>.

Note also that the '<' and '&' must also be represented specially in
HTML so convert your string with escapeHTML before you s/\n/<br>/.

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