Re: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-22 Thread John Brooking
pattern \n\n (which would indicate > the existence of an > empty line. For example: "Some paragraph text\n\nA I've got my solution, it's something like yours, and it works fine. The main difference was I explicitely used \x0d and \x0a because I wasn't sure if \n and \r were defin

Re: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-22 Thread fliptop
drieux wrote: > but if you wanted to 'clean em all' > > $line =~ s/[$eol]+/\n/g > > would find the case of > > \r > \r\n > \n > \r\n\n > > > and replace them all with a single '\n' for all > occurances in the $line that one is going through wouldn't this reg

Re: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-22 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 05:52 , Jake wrote: [..] > If the latter method works, that's cool, i havent tested it. I will admit > that as I learn this stuff, I tend to do everything the hard way first, > then trim it down. I have test it on [darwin|solaris|redhat linux 7.2] - I could get ove

Re: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-22 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
EXTAREA tag to one or more HTML paragraphs. That means any newlines > entered into the text box need to be turned into P tags by the script. > But I'm having trouble coming up with a regex to do this. I know I need > multiline mode, so I've been trying combinations involving "

Re: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-21 Thread Jake
cr/lf for newlines? Is anyone bored enough to go look? > > what I am not getting in these debates is why one should do > > my $cr = chr(13); > my $lf = chr(10); > my $eol = "$cr|$lf"; > > as opposed to leaving it to perl as > > my $eo

Re: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-21 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 05:58 , Felix Geerinckx wrote: > on Tue, 21 May 2002 12:35:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob > Showalter) wrote: > >> This is dependent on the browser, and not the client OS. The >> HTML standard would be controlling here, and it's pretty >> vague if you look at the TEX

RE: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-21 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Tue, 21 May 2002 12:35:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Showalter) wrote: > This is dependent on the browser, and not the client OS. The > HTML standard would be controlling here, and it's pretty > vague if you look at the TEXTAREA section. It was somewhat less vague in the 'HTML 3.2 Referenc

RE: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-21 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Jake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 5:18 PM > To: John Brooking; Beginners CGI > Subject: Re: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs > > ... My guess though is that textarea newlines will get sent > as cr/

Re: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-20 Thread drieux
On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 07:36 , John Brooking wrote: > --- drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> use CGI qw/:standard/; >> >> for a specific illustration cf: >> > http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/cgi/basicPagePopper.txt [..] > The code I included in the message was just > my test scrip

Re: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-20 Thread John Brooking
--- drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > maybe I am missing something here - but isn't > this something you would want to be using say > > use CGI qw/:standard/; > > for a specific illustration cf: > http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/cgi/basicPagePopper.txt Either you're missing somethi

Re: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-20 Thread John Brooking
--- Jake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On my machine (linux) if I dump textarea input to a > ascii text file like so... > > my $ta = $query->param('myTextArea'); > print outFile $ta; > > newlines are saved as cr/lf which corresponds to the > h

Re: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-20 Thread Jake
On my machine (linux) if I dump textarea input to a ascii text file like so... my $ta = $query->param('myTextArea'); print outFile $ta; newlines are saved as cr/lf which corresponds to the hex characters 0D and 0A. If I look at this file with some text editors it will look like

Re: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-20 Thread John Brooking
True, but if I am trying to repeatedly translate in both directions, won't this cause the newlines to grow? For example (P tags shown as [p] here): TEXTAREA sends "Para 1.\nPara 2.\nPara 3." I store: "Para 1.\n[p]Para 2.\n[p]Para 3." Translated back for TEXTAREA

Re: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-20 Thread drieux
On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 10:51 , John Brooking wrote: > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > - John maybe I am missing something here - but isn't this something you would want to be using say use CGI qw/:standard/; for a specific illustration cf: http://www.wetware.com/dr

Re: Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-20 Thread Jake
On Monday 20 May 2002 01:51 pm, John Brooking wrote: > Hello, all, > has worked so far. Everything I've tried has (1) added > the P tag but not removed the newline, and/or (2) also the first case should work, after all, the browser will ignore newline and carriage return characters, so

Translating newlines to HTML paragraphs

2002-05-20 Thread John Brooking
Hello, all, I'm trying to translate the value entered in a TEXTAREA tag to one or more HTML paragraphs. That means any newlines entered into the text box need to be turned into P tags by the script. But I'm having trouble coming up with a regex to do this. I know I need multilin

RE: sendmail and newlines

2001-08-24 Thread Crowder, Rod
> -Original Message- > From: Wendy DeCora [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 23 August 2001 16:13 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: sendmail and newlines > > > Situation: My perl script (see Code: below) is being > handed a flatfile

sendmail and newlines

2001-08-23 Thread Wendy DeCora
by a list administrator through an oracle tool (I think, I didn't develop that in anyway) and the ability to have newlines is necessary for formatting. The problem is when this message is dumped into the flatfile, the newlines are still in it and cause the script to go nuts. My idea was to hav

Re: newlines

2001-07-26 Thread Maxim Berlin
Hello Sergio, Thursday, July 26, 2001, Sergio Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SG> Hi, SG> I'm wondering how to make sure that when my data is written to a file, a SG> proper end of line is in place after ea. intended line. it's not your job. leave it to operating system. SG> code: SG> .

newlines

2001-07-26 Thread Sergio Gonzalez
Hi, I'm wondering how to make sure that when my data is written to a file, a proper end of line is in place after ea. intended line. code: ... # now loop and append the data to the file # Loop thru hash and write data foreach $value(values %cgidata) { if ($debug > 0) { print "Writin