Re: Converting newlines to <br /> tags

Tobias Kremer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.template-toolkit
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Bill,

have you tried this?

[% s.contribution | html | html_line_break %]

Taken from:

http://template-toolkit.org/docs/manual/Filters.html#section_html_line_break 

Hope this helps!
--Toby


On 12.02.2012, at 23:45, Bill Ward <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there a filter that will convert \n characters to <br /> tags as well as converting other special characters to HTML entities?
> 
> Currently I display the data using this code:
> 
> <td>[% HTML.escape(s.contribution) %]</td>
> 
> if I change the \n to <br /> in the Perl code, that gets converted to &lt;br /&gt; in the output naturally. I don't want to put actual Perl code into the template. I don't see anything in Template::Plugin::HTML that might help.
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