1) open (FILE, ">>yourfile.txt") ; for (@yourdata) { s/\n/<p>/g; print FILE "$_\n" }close (FILE); 2) open (FILE, "<yourfile.txt") ; while (<FILE>) { s/\n/<p>/g; print } close (FILE);
----- Original Message ----- From: "@fro @ndy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 10:33 PM Subject: Special Characters for a text area Hay, i am using apache with active state perl i think and i have created a message board in cgi. I would like it so that whenever people press enter and want to leave a line in between their posts it is displayed as having a blank line in between. For Example: User writes: Hi Hello CGI outputs as: Hi Hello Mine at the moment would print this out: Hi Hello I think its something to do with what is contained in the thing at the top of the script that parses the information =/ Please help :P Any help that you can offer will be of assistance Thanks Andrew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]