Re: simple question

2001-09-07 Thread Ryan Kane
Replace this line: > $body=~[what goes here?] > with this: > $body=~ s/\n/\n/g; > or this: > $body=~ s/\n//g; > > Do either of these do what you intend? > > Regards, > - Robert > > - > > At 04:44 PM 9/7/2001 -0700, Ryan Kane wrote: > [...] > >

simple question

2001-09-07 Thread Ryan Kane
I have a form that submits a textarea to a perl script, which sets that to $body. Unfortunately, if the text has two paragraphs (ie blank line between them) it will show up with the pesky ^m. I'm trying to display the entry in a formatted html page, so I would need to make it so the $body variab

where did I go wrong?

2001-08-22 Thread Ryan Kane
I have done a few SMALL and minor projects with PERL, and this will be my first time experimenting with CGI. With a lot of guidance from O'Reilly on this, I came up with the following script: #!/usr/local/bin/perl &parse_form_data (*FORM); sub parse_form_data { local (*FORM) = @_; local ($quer