Re: control-M

David Christensen wrote:

Actually, I forgot to also mention that the browser is changing the control-M (^M) from the query when it sets the default value for the textarea to "<br />". I guess that is the HTML representation of the ^M.

you are using nl2br() on the input, that funcion adds '<br />' before all newline characters.

I'm currently using: $_POST[$field] = str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $_POST[$field]); $_POST[$field] = strip_tags($_POST[$field], '<br />'); in a foreach loop for all the $_POST vars, but it's still not removing it. Dave On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 10:12 +0200, Marek Kilimajer wrote:

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? 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!

... = str_replace("\r\n", "\n", ...); But I don't see how this would infuence the default values of form inputs, plain htmlspecialchars() should be enough.