Re: CGI.pm : Handling Carriage Returns from textarea()

[Robert Page IV]

On Sep 6, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Sean Davis wrote:
White space (including carriage returns) is ignored by HTML, 
generally.  Try
surrounding your text output by the <pre> tag (preformatted text).  
Does
this do what you want?

Do I do this within the textarea() form? This does not seem practical 
if other want to use this
interface.

Robert Page
Sean
On 9/6/04 20:10, "Robert Page IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am trying to write a simple weekly entry CGI script and I am trying 
to
capture a the string returned from a textarea, assign the value to
either
a variable or array and output it to a web page with print or printf 
or
sprintf/print.

When I do this, apparently carriage returns are either not captured in
as part of the value
returned from the textarea value, or I am not handling the value
returned correctly to recognize
carriage returns.
Does anyone have any recommendations as to how I can solve this issue?
Robert C. Page IV

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