Use <pre> </pre> around the text. If you look at the html source, I think
you will find that the text is, in fact, formatted. Also, you could write
a regular expression to replace a line break with a <br>.
On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, eric wrote:
> Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:56:26 +0200
> From: eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Frau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Text formating in Perl
>
> Greetings!
>
> I have the same problem Blue Presley did only I'm using Perl.
>
> Using a textarea field with -wrap=>"virtual" I input
>
> Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
> Did gyre and gimbol in the wabe.
> All mimsy were the borogroves,
> And the mome raths outgrabe....
>
> and it shows up this way when I look at the table with mycc
>
> However when I try to print it out after SELECT ....
>
> print p("$ref->[5]");
>
> it prints all as one line.
>
> How do I maintain text format extraction in Perl 5.6.1? I can't seem to find
> the answer in either of the two books on Perl and MySQL.
>
> Thanks!
> Eric
>
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