Mike,
I'm assuming that you are trying to output this to a webpage.
I think your problem is that, HTML does not use line breaks in the
document. You can try this out by making a simple webpage like this:
<p> A
B
C
D
</p>
When you view this in your internet browser, you will see:
A B C D
To insert a line break in HTML, you use a "<br>" tag. In order to have the
line breaks appear properly in your final document you must insert a "<br>"
every place the line breaks should appear, and a "</p><p>" at every
paragraph break.
In PHP I I have my own funtion to do this, but it would not be that hard to
make one for Perl or ASP, if that is what you are using. It's just a simple
search and replace.
function format_text($text){
// Change any "<", and ">" their equivalent HTML entities
$text = htmlspecialchars($text);
// Strip out carriage returns
$text = ereg_replace("\r","",$text);
// Handle paragraphs
$text = ereg_replace("\n\n","</p><p>",$text);
// Handle line breaks
$text = ereg_replace("\n","<br>",$text);
return $text;
}
Hope this helps,
Daniel Von Fange
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Subject: Form Submission
When I submit a form and enter it into the database
it does not recognize when the user presses enter.
It keeps coming up as one long line, and for poetry,
it doesn't look very pleasant.
I would love if anyone could help me because it would
very much help me when creating future projects. I am
only 16 and I am doing considerably well since the
person that showed me MySQL said it was too hard for
me and I will never get anything good done.
But anyways, please help
Mike
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