control-M

I know I'm missing something, but I can't seem to find it or figure it out. I've done the google search, and I've done a quick scan of the list archives, but I can't seem to find the right way to remove control-M from a form submission page with textarea fields. I have a series of "textarea" fields that can/and do contain the dreaded ^M characters. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to remove them before I save them to the database, and how to remove the ones that are all ready stored there when I query them back to the browser from a web page. Also, if I do remove them, how do I make sure I format the text correctly when I push it back to the browser as the default values of these fields? Point me to the elixir of knowledge and let me bath in the fortitude of a master regex expression to rid me once and for all of the dreaded ^M!!! Thank you, and good night! "That's why I won't do 2 shows! I won't do it!"