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andy7t
User

Sep 16, 2003, 11:02 AM

Post #1 of 2 (368 views)

Stop Lines in Textarea	Can't Post

Hello,

I'm using this code:

<form action=?do method=post>
<textarea name=input>

</textarea>

sub do
{

open F, ">data/file.txt";

#also tried chomp $in{'input'}

print F "$in{'input'}"; #also used \n";

close F;
}

However, when i open up file.txt i see:

An input

with 2 lines

instead of just

one

Like that.

I can't work out how to put in just one space.

Thanks

KevinR
Veteran

Sep 16, 2003, 12:45 PM

Post #2 of 2 (364 views)

Re: [andy7t] Stop Lines in Textarea [In reply to]	Can't Post

this may very from browser to browser, but give this a try:

<textarea name="input" wrap="soft">

if that does not work then you may need to parse out the linefeeds/carraige returns sent with the textarea form submission, something like:

Code

   
  
if ($in{'input'}) {  
   $in{'input'} =~ s/\r\n//g;  
   $in{'input'} =~ s/\n//g;   
}

or you can do both. Make sure to add a newline to the end of the string in your print statement if you parse out \r\n's from the form data.
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(This post was edited by KevinR on Sep 16, 2003, 12:47 PM)

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