Maybe something like this: mylist = request.vars.mytextarea.splitlines()
That assumes a newline is the delimiter. If you use a different delimiter, then use .split(delimiter) instead. Anthony On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:24:07 PM UTC-5, Larry Wapnitsky wrote: > > Disclaimer: I'm new to Web2py (2 days and loving it) and re-learning HTML > after many years away from it. > > I have a large text field on a form whose input will be a list of items > entered by the user, separated by some sort of delimiter (most likely a > newline). Each valid line item will be entered into the database as its > own entity. > > How do I go about parsing this text box? Everything I've seen so far > talks about fields that come from/go to a database, but this one doesn't > do so directly. > > Let me know if I need to clarify. > > Thanks, > Larry >
