Hi Monks,
I have a html interface of sorts that allows users to add their email address and phone numbers for sms alerts. Additionally, there is a tick box that allows them to turn on and off their alerts. They were susposed to seperate the email addresses, if there were more than 1, with a comma.
i.e. fred@myserver.com,joe@myserver.com
This all worked fine until someone entered 2 addresses on two lines, ie,
fred@myserver.com
joe@myserver.com
Then the whole thing got out of whack. Does anyone have a better way of doing this to ensure the data can't be screwed up? 
while (<SERVICES>)
{
        chop;
        print FH "$_\n";
        $temp = $c->param("e$.");
        if ($temp eq "e$.")
        {
                print FH "email 1\n";
        }
        else
        {
                print FH "email 0\n";
        }
        $temp = $c->param("el$.");
        #chomp($temp);
        $temp =~ s/\n//g;
        $temp =~ s/\r//g;
        print FH "$temp\n";
        $temp = $c->param("s$.");
        if ($temp eq "s$.")
        {
                print FH "sms 1\n";
        }
        else
        {
                print FH "sms 0\n";
        }
        $temp = $c->param("sl$.");
        $temp =~ s/\n//g;
        $temp =~ s/\r//g;
        print FH "$temp\n";

}

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