need help with form submission

vkarthik · Nov 25, 2002

This is my problem:

I have a textarea in a form, and the form will submit to a perl script (passing the value in this textarea). I find that when I type somethin in the textarea with an indentation (say, i press enter twice between 2 lines), these 'enter' (or '\n') characters are not retained when the perl script receives it.

so im not able to show the text the way it was typed originally.

any useful thoughts on this will get nice votes. LOL A ship is safe in the harbour, but that's not what it is meant for!!! LOL

jvdboom · Nov 27, 2002

call this script testline.pl and put in in the cgi-bin
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

# Read and 'decode' the data received by the server so that
# we can use it in our HTML.
if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq "get&quot

{ $buffer = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}; }
else { read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}); }
@nvpairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@nvpairs)
{
($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
$value =~ tr/+/ /;
$value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
$value =~ s/\n/\n<br>/g;#Makes a visual line in html
$FORM{$name} = $value;
}

##Create the HTML with the 'decoded' data plugged in.

print "<HTML>\n";
print "<HEAD>\n";
print "<TITLE>Multilene textarea</TITLE>\n";
print "</HEAD>\n";
print "<BODY BGCOLOR=\"\#FFFF80\" TEXT=\"\#000000\">\n";
print "<BASEFONT SIZE=4>\n";
print "<CENTER>\n";
print "$FORM{'TEST'}!\n";
print "</CENTER>\n";
print "</BODY>\n";
print "</HTML>\n";

and take this as html:

<html><head><title>test</title></head>
<body>
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/cgi-bin/testline.pl">
<textarea name="TEST"></textarea>
<input type=submit>
</form></body></html>

vkarthik · Nov 27, 2002

thanks! will try it out and get back. LOL A ship is safe in the harbour, but that's not what it is meant for!!! LOL

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need help with form submission

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