Okay...

I added the following regexp in one of my module files:



Now, this works as it should in terms of adding and editing posts.

The problem is when viewing posts, the HTML codes show up, of course, so I use the following codes in another sub for viewing posts:



This works, however, line break <br> and paragraph break <p> only show up as HTML codes, and the spacing is lost.

Any advice is welcome.

Thanks in advance.
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Im not sure what the problem is but you shouldn't (or don't need to) escape &'s and ;'s ....that can sometimes cause unexpeced results.

Also I'd change:

$in =~ s,<(.*?)>,\&lt\;$1\&gt\;,gs;

to...

$in =~ s,<([^>])>,&lt;$1&gt;,gs;

...to be safe.

Well it will do as you are converting tags to &lt and &gt - they need to be < and > for them html to be interpreted surely?


Have I misunderstood?

That is correct, Paul.

However, I want all HTML tags except for < p > and < br > to be converted to &lt;something&gt;

Look at the following URI:

http://www.anthrotech.com/...topic=50&print=1

The post shows as:



The post should show like the following:



Does this make better sense?

Thanks for the reply. I do appreciate it.

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First you convert newlines to HTML...
Then you convert HTML to plain text...
Surely it's just a logic problem?

I guess you could either hold off converting newlines until you display posts, or convert plain text back into HTML (could be annoying)

s~\&lt\;br\&gt\;~<br>~g;

BTW, doesn't Chewbacca have two C's?

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Ugh you did it as well

s~&lt;br&gt;~<br>~g;

...will work.

If you want p's and br's try:

$in =~ s,&lt;(br|p)&gt;,<$1>,sig;

Thanks, Andy...It is NOT a logic problem...it is a regexp problem.

Got it?
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Thanks, Paul...That should work! Give it a shot this evening.
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You change newlines to HTML, and then wonder why turning HTML into text detroy's BR's...

Maybe logic was the wrong word - all I meant was it could have been planned ahead a bit better. Eg, you could turn newlines into a temporary marker (like DBMan does) and then convert the markers back into BR's for viewing.

Oh well, at least you fixed it

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- Mark

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Again, Andy, the problem is not with the process (I already replace strings with forum markup language, with the exception of break lines and paragraph beak codes).

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Who's Andy?

Peace

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