Is there a better way to do this:




What I am trying to allow, is someone to enter text into the desc ( for lit.org , it will be a poetry/fiction etc archive ). The above code works, but its buggy. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated ..

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$in{$db_cols[$db_description]} =~ s/\n/<br>/g;

that one line would do it all...

how is it buggy?

see what you are currently doing is sorta silly.. you are finding places with 2 newlines.. so it changes it.. and then you find all the ones with one newline.. then it changes that.. you don't even need the

if ($in{$db_cols[$$db_description]}) {

part.. plus that is not even the right code.. it should be..

if ($in{$db_cols[$db_description]}) {

if you use the one liner above.. it will replace all \n\n... with <br><br> because it's still \n...

if there is no description it will just skip it!

jerry

You guys must be reading my mind....

I was just thinking about this....

But Widgetz, where do I put this one liner of yours to get the wanted result??

Jeroen

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When something does not function properly, hit it hard.....
.....When it breaks it had to be replaced anyway.

hmm...

above

Thanx Widgetz, that did the trick.

The 2 lines I had worked, but like you said, was adding to many br's . I'm no perl guru, but thats what I kinda figured

I figured out what I thought was " buggy " ... When someone submits a text file, it was sorta chopping it up mid sentance, and after some digging, I found what was happening is that I ( they ) weren't letting the text box do the wrapping and were hitting enter some of the time.. I'll just have to post a little "How to post a story" link on the ADD page.. Thanx again for the hookup.

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