If you go that route, I'd offer up the suggestion of cleaning up the extra # signs a bit.
<cfset newstring = rereplace(rereplace(trim(form.mystring),""","""", "all"),"#chr(13)#","<br>","all") /> just makes it a bit more readable (IMO). and also God kills a kitty every time you overuse pound signs :) FWIW, regarding the quotes... instead of the nested rereplace, you could just use HTMLEditFormat() to escape 'em on output... and if you're using <cfqueryparam>, there'd be no issues with them during the database operations (insert/update) :) On 8/24/07, Matthew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you, Robert. Exactly what I needed. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 11:42 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: replace carriage returns > > How would I replace the carriage returns in a textarea entry with <br>? > > <cfset > newstring='#REREPLACE("#REREPLACE("#Trim(form.mystring)#",""","""", > "all > ")#","#chr(13)#","<br>","all")#'> > > This will do carriage returns and quotes to you can pass the data around > in > forms. Keep in mind, however, if you stick <br> into a DB and pull it > back > to a form for edits later, you need to convert the <br> back to carriage > returns. The string below will do that: > > #REREPLACE("#myoutputstring#","<br>","#chr(13)#","all")# > > Hope that helps. > > > Robert B. Harrison > Director of Interactive services > Austin & Williams > 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 > T : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 > F : 631.434.7022 > www.austin-williams.com > > Great advertising can't be either/or... It must be &. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:287053 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
