I've spent some time working with files that are written from the contents of HTML TEXTAREA boxes to files on the (UNIX) webserver.

More or less by trial an error, I've discovered that when I read them back in, by doing this:

open(FILEHANDLE,'filename.txt');<BR>
@theFile = <FILEHANDLE>;
$thefile = join('',@theFile);

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...the file's lines are separated by \r\n, or more precisely, the only way I can transform it into HTML by replacing linebreaks with &lt;BR&gt; tags or P tags for double line breaks is by replacing those two characters.

Why is this? Why isn't it just \n for instance?
-- 

($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthhrer
     pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;

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In reply to The Mysteries Of LineBreaks by Cody Pendant

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