Fellow Monks,
I have a text file that I'd like to display in a form textarea. I read this file into an array @source, and put that into the textarea of my cgi script...
use CGI;
$co=new CGI;
#some code here
$co->center($co->textarea
(
-name=>'textarea',
-default=>"@source",
-rows=>20,
-columns=>80,
)),
#other code here

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The problem is that while the first line displays fine, all the subsequent lines are shifted to the right by one space. I think it may be because the array is in between quotation marks (I could be wrong though!). However, when I get rid of the quotation marks it really messes up the order of the elements in the array. It seems to display to the text area like this:
print "@source";
and what I want it to do is display the array like this:
print @source;
I'd appreciate an ideas or suggestions.
Martymart

In reply to Displaying an array in a cgi generated textarea by martymart

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