Ok, I have a file that holds the html code for any users of my site.
Right now though, I have it set so that when the user modifies their page in a textarea box, when they save it, I strip all the carriage returns.
I do this because when I attempt to load their page from the file, It stops reading that user's page when it hits a carriage return.
I split each user's page with '&..&' and their username and page content with ':..:'
So the file looks like this:
User1:..:

Hello

&..&User2:..:

Welcome


This works fine, except that when you go to edit your page again, All the code is bunched up on a couple lines...
What I'd like to do is to not have to strip all carriage returns, and then read from the file.
So, basically, here's my question:

How can I read an entire file into a hash (username and content), and not have the hash contain only the content of a user's page up until a carriage return?

In reply to Split Function by Anonymous Monk

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