Re: Replacing newlines (\n) with smething else
| From: | Jason Giangrande | Date: | Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:11:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Replacing newlines (\n) with smething else | ||
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It's really strange because I type the following into the form field.
Test
Test
Test
And get this as output.
Test Test Test
Do form fields not preserve spacing or line breaks?
Jason
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 17:45, David Otton wrote:
> On 13 Jul 2003 17:27:04 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Perhaps. When getting text from a form field, what is substituted for a
> >newline (i.e. when someone hits enter).
>
> You can work it out for yourself. Run over the string, displaying each
> character as it's ASCII equivalent with ord(). Eg
>
> for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($article); $i++) {
> echo ("'" . $article[$i] . "'=" . ord($article[$i]) .
> ', ');
> }
>
> (My guess is that you're seeing the difference between a wrapped line and
> the user explicitly hitting enter)
>