Clean up Text

[bnc123]

I have copied some text from a webpage and used it in a form texarea. This text gets saved as data. The text as copied looks like this:

---------------
The Mercure Inn Continental Broome is located 1km from the heart of Broome
and a short 10 minute drive from Cable Beach, set in tropical landscaped
gardens making it the perfect location for relaxation or adventure.
---------------

There are line breaks due to the width of the paragraph on that webpage.

I then recall the data on a webpage within a javascript. But since there are line breaks, the javascript does not work.

I have tried:
$description =~ s/\n/<br>/g; and
$description =~ s/\n//g;

But still no joy.

Is there any way of getting the copied text into one line only? Sort of like cleaning or tidying up the text.

 

[uida1154]

try a combination with \n (newline) , \r (return) and \f (form feed). As I remember it should be something with:

s/\n/\n\r/g;

 

[uida1154]

More on RE:

http://piglet.uccs.edu/~cs301/perl/re.htm

 

[bnc123]

Thanks uida1154, I tried a combination and it worked. Have a nice day.