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yapp
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Feb 13, 2002, 5:40 AM

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CrLf from textfield	Can't Post

To test my CGI scripts, I work used windows2000 iis/5.0, IE 5 (windowsxp, iis5.1, IE6 since yesterday)

When I receive text from a <TEXTFIELD></TEXTFIELD> input field, I seams that my CGI script receives CrLf pairs used for line-breaks. I experienced that problem when I applied a split(/\n/, $message) to the message. Nowadays, I use a regexp to convert the data, and then everything works as it should be.

However, I still have some questions:
- Is this an internet standard?
- Or is this is a bug in iis/ie?
- Does this happen elsewhere aswell?

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fashimpaur
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Feb 13, 2002, 6:47 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1965 views)

Re: [yapp] CrLf from textfield [In reply to]	Can't Post

Boy, we keep meeting everywhere! Okay, here's the skinny. It happens everywhere. Textfield data
from any win32 platform seems to put in \r characters instead of \n characters each time a new line
is required. When looking at the input from that field type, do a s/\r/\n/g; on that parameter. Then
all the remaining times you run the data through regexes it should work as planned.

HTH,

Dennis

$a="c323745335d3221214b364d545".
"a362532582521254c3640504c3729".
"2f493759214b3635554c3040606a0",
print unpack"u*",pack "h*",$a,"\n\n";

Paul
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Feb 13, 2002, 8:07 AM

Post #3 of 4 (1964 views)

Re: [fashimpaur] CrLf from textfield [In reply to]	Can't Post

Or you could just do:

split(/[\r\n]+/, $message)

yapp
User

Feb 13, 2002, 9:20 AM

Post #4 of 4 (1961 views)

Re: [RedRum] CrLf from textfield [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks.

As I said, I already do that... But I don't use the \r character. I use the real ascii escape code, since perl makes \n and \r looks like what's the best for the platform the script runs at.

About my original question: does any platform has such problems, which I should handle?

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