$references =~ s/#/\n/g;  
 
print "<tr><td><span class=text>References:</span></td><td> 
 
<textarea name=references cols=25 class=input>$references</textarea></td></tr>"; 
  
 
_______________________________________________________________  
 
Now the preview script takes the references and other information and creates an HTML page so that the user can see   
 
how their resume will look as it stands.  You will notice the use of hidden fields to send the values to the script which will   
 
save the info.  The value of references being passed to the preview script will have newlines in it.  I want to turn those   
 
newlines into HTML line breaks (<br />) to properly format it for the HTML document that will be created.  
 
 
Code
 
  
 
Because of the formatting done to the the value of $references done in the previous step, the value  of $references   
 
still holds those   
 
<br />'s.  Those should be kept in the value for saving the HTML because they are needed to format them in the html   
 
page.  But   
 
there's a save_customer subroutine and there has to be formatting there that will not mess up the database, but   
 
also allow for   
 
the editing script to know that a newline goes there in the textarea.  
 
 
Code
 $references = $christophersnyder->param('references');&save_customer;if ($references eq "") { 
 
       print ""; 
 
}else{ 
 
	print "<tr><td><span class=text>References:</span></td><td><span class=body>$references</span></td></tr>"; 
 
} 
 
  
 
sub save_customer { 
 
  
 
$references =~ s/<br \/>/#/g; 
 
  
 
open(CUST, ">data/$customer.dat"); 
 
print CUST "$password|$email|$references"; 
 
close(CUST); 
 
}