Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Filtering the input from a transmitet form

Hi,

I always use this to transform textarea results to single line :

$data =~ s/[\n\r][\n\r]/<br>/g;

Good luck,

Thomas

On vrijdag, jan 10, 2003, at 19:05 Europe/Brussels, Eelco Alosery wrote:

> I have a problem when I reseave a transmitet form and want to writh it 
> to a data base.
> All the reseaved info must by written to a single line, but somtimes 
> it starts writing multiple lines.
> This happens when there has giffen a enter for a new line in the 
> textfield on the form.
> How do I filter al enters to the the foloing text: <br>
> I als want to filter multiple whithe spaces to a single white space 
> and i want to filter out white spaces at the start end the end of the 
> reseaved text.
> My problem usely happens when a text is copy't from a word file for 
> accample.
>
> So I mean what is the best code to filter a reseaved text to writh it 
> to 1 line in a data base
>
>
> Thanks, Eelco Alosery