Re: control-M
| From: | Petar Nedyalkov | Date: | Thu, 05 May 2005 06:07:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: control-M | ||
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On Thursday 05 May 2005 06:13, David Christensen wrote:
> 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?
There's a tool called dos2unix - use it.
>
> 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!"
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Petar Nedyalkov
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