Re: Replacing new lines in multi line text box form fields with <br>.

Use a character class to deal with LF CR and CRLF line endings. A standard newline after the
maintains readability.

$INPUT{'comments'} =~ s/[\r\n]+/<br>\n/g;
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Re^2: Replacing new lines in multi line text box form fields with <br>. by Smylers (Pilgrim) on Nov 26, 2004 at 09:20 UTC
`$INPUT{'comments'} =~ s/[\r\n]+/<br>\n/g;` That isn't a good pattern to use, because it means that two line-breaks in the input, such as used to indicate a paragraph break, become only one in the output. Smylers	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Replacing new lines in multi line text box form fields with <br>. by tachyon (Chancellor) on Nov 27, 2004 at 06:06 UTC
You're right. `s/\r\n\|\r\|\n/<br>\n/g` is better. cheers tachyon	[reply] [d/l]


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