How to save white space??

[webIntern]

Hi, All

I'm working on a page that changes dynamically with changes to a database. There is a large chunk of text that is queried from a database to be displayed on the asp page. I'd like to save the white space that is already in this text - including the carriage returns and such. How would I do that without using the <pre> tag?

 

[snowboardr]

For carriage returns just replace vbcrlf with <br>

MyText = Replace(MyText,vbcrlf,&quot;<br>&quot

Then when you out put it, you can replace it back.

As far as white spaces go, the database won't erase them as far as I know, but if you must do something with them to keep them exsistent for some reason, just replace them with a unused letter or a group of symbols or something.. like #~# but I can't figure out why you need to &quot;keep&quot; spaces.

- Jason

www.vzio.com
ASP WEB DEVELOPMENT

 

[webIntern]

I need to keep the spaces because they're already formatted for how we want them to look. These are press releases/articles about our company.

Thanks - I'll give it a try.

 

[webIntern]

that worked.

Again, thanks!!

 

[snowboardr]

No problem, I do what I can!

But remember replacing your spaces with 1 character is scary because a user could use that character... but more then 1 could be more space used up in the db... but that all depends on the number of records and how many spaces I guess..

- Jason

www.vzio.com
ASP WEB DEVELOPMENT