ASP - Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string

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Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string

Chris Mach

2004-09-30, 3:55 pm

Hey,

If i'am writing a post in a "textarea" and i use the ENTER (newline) on my keyboard it comes as a line break <br> in my post on the forum.

PHP uses "nl2br", but what is the ASP solution for this?

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Jeff Cochran

2004-09-30, 3:55 pm

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:02:11 -0400, "Chris Mach" <cjmach@gto.net>
wrote:

>If i'am writing a post in a "textarea" and i use the ENTER (newline) on my keyboard it comes as a line break <br> in my post on the forum.
>
>PHP uses "nl2br", but what is the ASP solution for this?

Depends on wht you actually want, but this may be what the equivalent
to PHP would be:

strPost = Replace(FormInput,VbCrLf,"<br>")

FormInput is what comes from the text area, strPost is the post with
HTML breaks.

Personally, I store the text verbatim in the database and replace on
retrieving it, but it could work either way.

Jeff

Chris Mach

2004-09-30, 3:55 pm

> Personally, I store the text verbatim in the database and replace on
> retrieving it, but it could work either way.

Yes, that is what I want to do, how is that done?

please? :D

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Jeff Cochran

2004-09-30, 8:55 pm

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:46:00 -0400, "Chris Mach" <cjmach@gto.net>
wrote:

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>
>Yes, that is what I want to do, how is that done?

Are you asking how to save a text input field to a database field,
retrieve the data from the database, format it for display or all of
the above?

Might look at:

http://www.1asphost.com/asp_db.asp

It's not perfect, but will get you started.

Jeff

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