Posted by Carl Vondrick on 02/28/06 03:09
dbee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I'm having a problem with disappearing newlines. I import the
> newlines from a file into my shell script fine. But then I process the
> text and the url_encode comes out the other end with linefeeds intact
> but no newlines.
>
> Also any single quotes in my file give me a T_STRING unexpected error
> in my output ... even though I'm using rawurlencode(). I've tried
> escaping them in my text but no luck there.
> I can live without the single quotes, but I need newlines in my output.
>
> URL="`cat job_description`"
>
> URL_ENCODED_DESCRIPTION=`php -r "echo rawurlencode('$URL');"`
>
> ... the single quotes works fine - the php function returns a value -
> so that's not a problem.
>
> Can anyone help me get a urlencoded string with newlines intact ?
> Otherwise I'm just left with a lump of text.
> Also I can't use <br> or \n in my output because my message board won't
> parse them ... :-)
>
I think I answered something like this before. My suggestion was to
simply encode newlines using your own method. Make some escape key that
would act as a newline.
Carl
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