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Sending Formatted Text To A Cgi Script

 
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Sending Formatted Text To A Cgi Script, text area formatting
graeder
2 Mar, 2003 - 11:56 AM
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Just wondering if there is a way to send formatted text to a cgi script. In other words, I want the text in a text area that is entered by the user to be sent as is. If the user hits enter to create a new line I would like this to be sent to the cgi script.
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2 Mar, 2003 - 02:42 PM
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i know nothing about Perl but from what i here it is alot like php. with php there is a string replace function. there should be something like that for Perl also
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2 Mar, 2003 - 03:12 PM
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in perl you'd use a regular expression. i'm a little rusty, but something like this:
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$string =~ s/\n/\<br\>/g;


ie: switching the newlines with <br> tags. you could then see if there were any double br tags and replace those with </p><p> if you wanted...
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14 Mar, 2003 - 08:58 PM
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thanks, I'll try that. That makes sense.
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