having issue with carriage return from textarea on html page... 1

[spewn]

I have a form that has a textarea. Users can type info into the textarea, and hit return when they need to create a new paragraph.

Then I have a perl script that pulls the info from textarea, stores in variable, then puts that variable in a mail script (using sendmail).

It works, but not exactly as it should.

If the user types in:

[textarea]
Here we have a story about a snake and a rabbit.

The rabbit runs to the snake.

The snake eats the rabbit.
[/textarea]

Once I capture that and put in sendmail script, the email shows the text as:


Here we have a story about a snake and a rabbit.


The rabbit runs to the snake.


The snake eats the rabbit.


As you can see, when I get the email, there are double returns where the user has pressed return.

I've tried escaping the textarea value, then unescaping the value when I put it in the email, but to no avail.

This is driving me crazy. I can store it in a database, and it stores correctly, but once it goes into the email, it comes to me double spaced.

Any ideas?

- g

 

[KevinADC]

The textarea tag might be adding \r\n or only \n to the end of each line break. You can try this on the variable that stores the text:

$var =~ s/\r?\n/\n/g;

Then put it into sendmail and see if it helps.

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[spewn]

Perfect.

Thanks...very much appreciated!

I was going crazy.

- g