ok heres the snippit of code and i'm bodging this together from a couple of different sources so bear with me here...
<BEGIN..>
use CGI;
my $req = new CGI;
my $file = $req->param("FILE1");
my $login = $req->param("login");
my $description = $req->param("description");
$description =~ tr/\n/ /;
<END>
everythign is coming in from a CGI post form the problem I'm still having is that when I write the description variable out to a database file it still has the X0D (carriage return) character in it in any place that I have hit the return in the multi line text field I have placed "$description =~ tr/\n/ /;" in the script as someone had pointed out to me before in another post and it had gotten rid of the problem for me in another script but this one I'm working with now has a bit different way of handling the input from the CGI post. any help would be greatly appreciated

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