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in reply to Converting carriage returns to HTML breaks

You can also cheat:

use CGI;
my $html_break = CGI->br;

$message =~ s/\Q\r\n\E/$html_break/g;

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Not sure if that does what you want, but it's worth a shot.

~Thomas~

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