in reply to converting carriage returns to <br> tags (was: Simple Question for you guys)

my $text=$cgi->param('mytextfield');

$text =~ s/\n/\<br\>/g;


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Re: Re: Simple Question for you guys.
by AidanLee (Chaplain) on May 18, 2001 at 17:30 UTC
    why have you escaped the < and > symbols? AFAIK they are not special inside a regex.
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      Simple. I felt like it. When in doubt escape. It doesn't cost much and it certainly doesn't hurt.

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        But there's no reason to be in doubt. Simply read the documentation - or try it out - and you'll know whether or not you need to escape characters.

        Escaping unnecessarily is a good way to confuse the next programmer to maintain your code.

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