I can't get the data the way the user typed it in!

What do you mean? If the user typed his message in a plain text, there shouldn't be any difficutly displaying it back the way it was typed. Are you dealing with some sort of custom formatting? Could you please tell us more about your problem and probably include the script you've got so far.

For the record, I should mention that there are already zillions of free scripts (in Perl) that can do the job awesomely for you. Unless you want to learn how to do it on your own, I'd suggest looking through this google search results and see if there's any readily available script that you might like.

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open(I,$0);<I>;$~=$/;$/='~';$_=<I>;($/)=/(.)$~/;s/[$~~]//g;/(v)/;$-=$-[0];s;\Q$/\E;$~;g;($/,$^)=/^(.)(.)/;
#%  xxxxxx   xx-+  xx    xxx xx  xx       xx  xx   xxx   xxxxx+ xx  xx xxxx xxxxx  ......+
#x xxxxvxxx xx  xx xv   xxxx x+ %+  ===== xx  xx  xx xx  x+  =x xx xx  xx   xx xx ...+
#x xx xx xx xx  xx xx  xx xx xxx+         xxxxxx xx   +x xx     xx+x-  xxxx xxxx ........+
#% xx xx xx xx  xx xx xx  x+ xx xx  =+=== xx  xx xxxx-xx xx  =x +x xx  xx   xx xx ...+
#% xx xx xx  -+x+  xxx+   xx xx  xx       xx  xx x+   xx xxx+xx xx  xx xxxx xx  xx ....+~
for(split/$~/){s,[ $/],,g;/(.)$/;$l=$-[0];/(.)/||next;$_=chr$-+$l;$".=($1=~/$^/)?" \u$_":$_;}print$";

In reply to Re: Reading data from a document.txt by vladb
in thread Reading data from a document.txt by Kuntent

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