Hello,

I am trying to perform substitutions on the text that has been submitted from an HTML form using the TEXTAREA element.

In my HTML I have a TEXTAREA element named info and I try to do the following in the called Perl script: 

...
my $info = $query->param('info');
$info =~ s/\n/<p>/g;
my $sql = sprintf "insert into test values(%s)", $dbh->quote($info);
$dbh->do($sql) || die;
...

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However, when I submit 

Hello,

This is a test.

Bye Bye.

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to the HTML form, I see: 
test=> select * from test;
                     stuff                     
-----------------------------------------------
<p>Bye Bye.a test.
(1 row)

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in the database.

Why?

In reply to Replacing new line characters from HTML TEXTAREA submissions by Anonymous Monk

Title:
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