If I understand correctly, your data in the database is text, with newline characters in it, and you wish to display that data with the newlines in it, as one would expect a text editor to do.

If this is the case, you have two options.

Option 1

Use a <pre /> block, like so:

print "<pre>$text</p>";

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Note that it is advised to escape the text so that there is no possibility of XSS or conflicts with HTML special characters.
CGI can do that:

print "<pre>", CGI::escapeHTML($text), "</pre>";

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Option 2

To use the HTML paragraph block, simply use a regular expression to replace all newline characters with the HTML <br />.
Regular expressions are a very important part of the Perl language, and therefore left as an exercise to the reader. ;-) 

~Thomas~ 

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In reply to Re: I need help with displaying newline or paragraph using perl on my website by thomas895
in thread I need help with displaying newline or paragraph using perl on my website by 5plit_func

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