Recognizing Line breaks in a textarea-field?

Hi,

after a while of searching here i didn't found an answer:

I do have a field like this:

<textarea name=message rows=25 cols=50></textarea>


If anyone enters data with line breaks like:

bla
bla
bla

it will be sent without them like:

bla bla bla


What do i need to do if i want to get it sent like entered?

Thanks for hints!

Hi ,

When you press enter "/n" will be concatenated.
so, when you print the value search for "/n" and replace it with
"<br>".

Hope this solves your problem...

It's actually "\n", and this is platform dependent. Unix machines send "\n" and windows machines send "\r\n".

Try www.perlmonks.org, I think there are example regexes there.

oh sorry ..i mistakenly typed "\n" as "/n"...

Thanks ... than this should work:

$message =~s/(\r\n|\n\r|\r)/<BR>\n/g;


but it didn't ... why?

You've done a regex for \r and not \n. If you're on a UNIX platform you'll want \n. No platform, to my knowledge, uses \r alone. So you want to do this instead:

$message =~s/(\r\n|\n\r|\n)/<BR>\n/g;