Are you saying you want to retain the line breaks when it is rendered in HTML (e.g., in a grid or read-only form)? If so, you can do something like:
Field('myfield', 'text', represent=lambda v, r: XML(v.replace('\n', '<br>' ))) or Field('myfield', 'text', represent=lambda v, r: PRE(v)) Anthony On Thursday, May 1, 2014 3:24:16 PM UTC-4, Mark Billion wrote: > I have a database entry that looks like this when I enter the DB admin: > > Mark's Restaurant > > MEAL PLAN > > NOTICE > > When it prints, I get: > > Mark's Restaurant MEAL PLAN NOTICE > > My problem is that I would like to split the text by line but I cant > figure out what the raw symbol is for the break (i.e., \r\n), as when I add > these, they are ignored. Can you point me in the right direction. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.