Need help fast! <------- (come on, all coders)

[VoodooExtreme]

I've got this problem... I'm getting data from a database and getting it into an textbox but instead of getting &quot;<br>&quot; in the textbox I wanna convert it so it shows as ENTER marks instead (you know when you press the ENTER button and you get a new line to write on)...

anyway to do this?

(I know there is.. but I can't figure it out... )

 

[Czar]

I would love to know that to.

In what language are you coding?

 

[Kosugi]

Voodoo, use a little java script. At the end of each line returned from your database, append by the javascript '+' operator, a '\n'. That simulates a newline. I can dig around for an example...

 

[Pretender]

You could use substr(data, &quot;<BR>&quot, it'll give you the position of the first instance of <BR> in the data, then you can replace it with \n.

The problem is, \n is only one byte, but <BR> is 4, so you'd need to either fill the other 3 with something, or shift everything to the right of it over to the left 3 places.

 

[VoodooExtreme]

I've got this script to convert it to other way...

<script language=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
<!--
function test(theForm){
makeBreak(theForm);
return true;
}

//replaces newlines with <br>
function makeBreak(theForm){
var newLinePat = /\r\n/g;
theStr = theForm.vdMsg.value;
theStr = theStr.replace(newLinePat, &quot;<br>&quot;
theForm.vdMsg.value = theStr
}

//-->
</script>

Anyone know can help me rewrite this script the other way around... (I'm not the programmer where I work, and he's free today... So, I'd be glad if anyone can help.

Thanx in advance!
/Stefan

 

[urbantechie]

WHAT YOU SAY?!

 

[VoodooExtreme]

urbantechie: Gettin' confused?

Don't worry... I don't much either...

 

[VoodooExtreme]

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