Re: Substituting Newline Characters

Yes. $comments =~ s/\n/<.br>\n./g;

Why you'd want to is beyond me, though.

edit:
I see now. You need this $comments =~ s/\n/<br>\n/g;

Explanation: The g modifier specifies you want to substitute all matches instead of just the first one.

Ps: you can use <code> tags to type code with worrying about escaping < characters.

Edit2: I usually find it much easier on the users to do this instead: s/\n\n/<p>\n/g; and leave the single breaks alone.

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Re: Re: Substituting Newline Characters by BUU (Prior) on Mar 15, 2004 at 23:11 UTC
(Responding to edit2) Wouldn't that produce something like `this is a line <p> this is another line <p> this is a third line <p>` [download] How ugly. Paragraph tags aren't line breaks, they're supposed to enclose a paragraph! At least do `s/\n\n/<\/p><p>/g` and do something to insert a paragraph tag at the beginning.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Substituting Newline Characters by Joost (Canon) on Mar 16, 2004 at 10:52 UTC
No, given: `this is a line this is line2 this is a new paragraph this is line2 on a new paragraph` [download] it will produce `this is a line this is line2 <p> this is a new paragraph this is line2 on a new paragraph` [download] I do agree that you probably should put a `<p>` tag at the beginning, but in HTML a `<p>` tag doesn't need to be closed. XHTML is another matter, ofcourse. joost. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l] [select]