Minor nit.

A textarea comes in with carriage return/line feed pairs.

/\n/ will leave the carriage returns behind (on windows and nix). It may be better to use /\r\n/ instead. 

#!c:/perl/bin/perl.exe

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI;
my $q = CGI->new;

#my @lines  = split /\n/, $q->param(q{txt_area});
my @lines = split /\r\n/, $q->param(q{txt_area});

print $q->header;
print qq{*$_*} for @lines;

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<html>
  <head>
    <title>textarea test</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form name = "txt_area_form" action  = "/z/bin/test_form.cgi">
      <textarea name = "txt_area" rows = "3" cols = "10"></textarea>
      <input type = "submit">   
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

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/\r\n/ produces 
*one**two**three*

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and /\n/ gives 
*one **two **three*

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i.e. the carriage returns are still lurking waiting to bite you later on. :-)

In reply to Re^2: use CGI Question by wfsp
in thread use CGI Question by Anonymous Monk

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