multiline text from the forms thanks

[alphaaa]

i would like the text to appear as it is posted. I'm using textarea tage with rows and colums defined with post as the method to send the data. At the other end im using perl scripts to get the data and load it to the database. Now when i receive the data it comes in one line instead of in rows and clumns or they way it was posted. What do i have to do to break the data into rows and columns exactly as it was posted by the end user? I hope i explained it clearly.
data field for my column is VARCHAR2.
Thanks for answering.

 

[sem]

You need to parse the request in your perl program.

 

[alphaaa]

Sem could you please guide me where can i find this information?
-Thanks