From: Brad Fike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I have written a small cgi script that allows my users to submit some
> text to a db. everything work well except that it seems to be doubling
> their return keys. Each time they modify their entry the lines get one
> return key further apart. I read this in one of the Oreilly books...
> 
> "Upon submission of the form, the browser collects all the lines of
> text, each separated by "%0D%0A" (carriage return/line feed)"
> 
> how can I convert the "%0D%0A" to just the regular "\n" character? I
> cannot use the CGI.pm module.

Assuming you have the data decoded :

        $data =~ tr/\x0D//d;

For parsing the query and decoding data you definitely SHOULD use 
CGI.pm. (Or maybe CGI::Deurl.pm? :-)

Jenda
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