Preserving White Space in HTML

[lucknowm]

Is there a way to preserve white spaces ( blanks, tabs etc.) in HTML.

I am using print statement in Perl to read lines from a file and print them as follows :

while ( <INP_FILE> ) {
chomp;
printf &quot;\n$_ \n&quot;;
printf &quot;<br>&quot;;
}

But when the page is rendered, multiple blanks are replaced by a single blank, tab is replaced by blank etc.

abhay

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

<pre>This contains multiple whitepace</pre>

Hope this helps

Wullie

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[lucknowm]

One problem,

the page is now showing blank line after every line

abhay

 

[elegidito]

dont know much perl, but is it because this line has two new lines in it, one at the beginning and end.

printf "\n$_ \n";

hope it helps

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