yo brothers,

so i'm working on a cgi-script, i just started using mySql, and i have a problem i can't fix.

this is part of my code: 
$song=getdb("SELECT lyrics FROM song WHERE id=$form{id}");
print "<textarea>$song&lt;/textarea>";

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so when i use type in mysql administrator: 

SELECT lyrics FROM song WHERE id=$form{id}

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it returns: 

I was alone
i was all by myself
no on was lookiiing
i was thinking of you.

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but when i view it in the browser i see this: 
<textarea>I was alone

i was all by myself

no on was lookiiing

i was thinking of you.&lt;textarea>

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yeh, that's my problem. ohh yeah, i used fetchrow_array() in the dbi module, alright dudes, thanks a bunch.

oh yeah, and i have another lil quiestion: is 
$blah{one}=~s/a/b/g;
$blah{two}=~s/a/b/g;
==
$blah{'one','two'}=~s/a/b/g;

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????

alright, later kids.


Edit ar0n 2001-07-19 -- removed pre tags.
Edit kudra, 2001-07-20 Changed title from HELP x3

In reply to Formatting data as HTML to get the same appearance as mysql select return by pokemonk

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