Well...I'd do something like this: open(IN,"myFile.txt");
#by undefining the input separator (below), #we can read the whole file as one scalar undef $/; my $fileContents= <IN>; close(IN); print<<eof; <HTML> <BODY> <FORM> Here's my file: <textarea name="myTextArea">$fileContents</textarea> </FORM> eof voila! As for your second question, if you wanna strip spaces at the ends you could do this $myString =~ s/^\s+(.+?)\s+$/$1/g; This says, if you see multiple spaces at the beggining or end of a string with any other characters in the middle, replace the whole thing with the non-space stuff in the middle.... If you just want to remove spaces, do something like this: $myString =~ s/\s+//g; There are many other ways of doing this, too... if you need more help, tell us specifically what you're trying to do... -Peter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 7:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Form TextArea loading Hi all, Can sombody tell me how to load the contents of a text file into a textarea of a form in cgi? thanks... oh and also need to to remove blank spaces from a string non realated though Ambrose -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
