Yes, I did believe that about Perl, and it looks from what you say as though I had got confused somewhere, as I don't remember reading perlport. But it's not there that I'm having a problem. It's with the text from the database that may contain either one or two characters that I need to convert to \n (that's the easy bit) and then pass unescaped back to the database. That's the bit where I'm stuck right now. But thank you for the correction, as I'm pretty sure I would otherwise get bitten some time in the future.

Regards,

John Davies

In reply to Re^2: Line separators when passing multi-line fields to a database ("\n") by davies
in thread Line separators when passing multi-line fields to a database by davies

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