in reply to Replacing new lines in multi line text box form fields with <br>.

Use a character class to deal with LF CR and CRLF line endings. A standard newline after the
maintains readability.
$INPUT{'comments'} =~ s/[\r\n]+/<br>\n/g;

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Re^2: Replacing new lines in multi line text box form fields with <br>.
by Smylers (Pilgrim) on Nov 26, 2004 at 09:20 UTC
    $INPUT{'comments'} =~ s/[\r\n]+/<br>\n/g;

    That isn't a good pattern to use, because it means that two line-breaks in the input, such as used to indicate a paragraph break, become only one in the output.

    Smylers
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      You're right. s/\r\n|\r|\n/<br>\n/g is better.

      cheers

      tachyon

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