New Line chars

[rhull]

Basically I have textarea for the user to enter data to save to a database. I take the value of the textarea store it in a variable then use it in the SQL. But when the users hits enter (newline) it then breaks up the SQL and it doesn't work. It there a good way to remove newlines chars and make it one line or should i do a URL encode thing even though they may have up to a paragraph of data?

Thanks!
-Ryan