In HTML all newlines and multiple spaces are treated as a single space for display purposes. Thus: 
<p>This
will
look
like
this      does       below

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This will look like this does below

The <PRE> tag means preformatted so 

<PRE>
This
retains
the 
newlines
</PRE>

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This
retains
the
newlines

You badly need to learn some HTML. You also need to escape the HTML special characters < > "" & 

sub escapeHTML {
    my ( $escape, $text ) = @_;
  return '' unless defined $escape ;
    $escape =~ s/&/&amp;/g;
    $escape =~ s/"/&quot;/g;
    $escape =~ s/</&lt;/g;
    $escape =~ s/>/&gt;/g;
    # these next optional escapes make text look the same when rendere
+d in HTML
    # without wrapping in <pre> tags
    if ( $text ) {
        $escape =~ s/\t/    /g;                         # tabs to 4 sp
+aces
        $escape =~ s/( {2,})/"&nbsp;" x length $1/eg;   # whitespace e
+scapes
        $escape =~  s/\n/<br>\n/g;                      # newlines to 
+<br>
    }
    $escape =~ s/([^\000-\177])/'&#' . (sprintf "%3d", ord $1) . ';'/e
+g;
  return $escape;
}

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So you need to do something like 

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print "<pre>\n";

for (@data) {
    print escapeHTML($_);
}

print '</pre>';

sub escapeHTML { ..... }

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cheers

tachyon

s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

In reply to Re: Re: Re: CGI/MySQL and the vanishing \n by tachyon
in thread CGI/MySQL and the vanishing \n by basm101

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