Hello,

Here's what I got:


The problem is that the output inside the textarea (starting from the second line) will have a space character at front of each line. In my database I don't have any spaces at front of each line.
Could it be a <TEXTAREA> tag bug? - I don't know.
I need to get rid off these spaces, because the text from textarea will be saved back to the database. Anybody, please help!

Thank you.

Pasha

What kind of space is that? Perhaps you would use this code to take off the "space".

DAT =~ s/&#38;nbsp;//s;

Or you might want to change that &#38;nbsp; to how the "space" character looks like. Correct me if Im wrong as I am not so good in Perl, yet!

Doesn't help. The spaces are still there.

Here's the output I get in both cases:

Try this:

$output =~ s/ //g;

OR

$output =~ s/ //g;

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Thank you guys, I solved the problem this way:



Thank you.

Pasha

Hmmm... pain. How do I print it back to the $datafile?

Thank you.

Pasha

Ummm, you mean after the form has been posted back to the script?

Well, you'll need to parse the form, so do you already have a readparse subroutine? If you do, you'll need to add a NAME attribute to the TEXTAREA tag, and do something like this:

(This assumes that the array returned from your readparse routine is $in, and the name you gave the TEXTAREA was "data".)

open (>DAT, "$datfile");
print DAT $in{'data'};
close DAT;

Cheers,
adam

[This message has been edited by dahamsta (edited August 06, 1999).]

dahamsta,

I use CGI module, so the code is a little bit different. Any way, I got it working


Thank you!

Pasha

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