I have a cgi script that receives input from checkboxes, radio buttons, and textareas. Although I am able to control how the information is stored in the logfile for the radio buttons and the checkboxes (not "multiple"), the textarea is giving me problems. The textarea input can vary from one item to several, I can get the information to print to a log file, like: 
HHH9114
EEE8888
LLL4258
PPP8525

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but I am trying to make them print like: 
||HHH9114||EEE8888||LLL4258||PPP8525||

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can you help me please?

In reply to How do I parse data received from a textarea by bbaily

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