sorry this is my first post here is the code:

### displays code in textarea
print "<center><textarea name=head rows=6 cols=60 wrap=soft>\n";
print @linesHead;
print "</textarea></center>\n"; 

### saves data to file
open (FILE,">$dataDir/currentHeader.txt");
flock (FILE, 2) or die "cannot lock file exclusively: $!";
print FILE $FORM{'head'};
close(FILE);

### reads data from file
open(FILE,"< $dataDir/currentHeader.txt");
@linesHead = <FILE>;
close(FILE);

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I have searched for hours and tried all sorts of ways to correct this. While I have seen others with the same problem I am yet to see an answer that works.

Cheers James

In reply to Re: extra spaces in textarea by ja
in thread extra spaces in textarea by ja

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