$value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

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translates the %20 and whatnot of HTML encoding into the correct characters. This is done the with the help of the magic /e modifier ( see the library and search on egimosx for a full discussion ), which causes perl to run the REPLACEMENT part through an eval first. In this case, the pack statement is translating the 20, eg, into a space.

The line giving you fits is the second one, which is replacing all newlines with 20 spaces. And yes, there is something you can do about it :).
Try this instead: 

$sub_body =~ s/\n/<BR>/g;

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which does exactly what you asked - substitutes
tags for every newline

I am curious to know why they used the /i modifier on the regex, though. To the best of my knowledge, newlines do not come in upper- and lower- case flavours.

Mik
Mik Firestone ( perlus bigotus maximus )

UPDATE Sorry - I badly misparsed the regex. Don't ask why because I couldn't tell you for certain. It is replacing it with, as btrott so correctly stated, a single space.
mea culpa,
Mik

In reply to Re: form parsing by mikfire
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