Posted by Marek Kilimajer on 05/05/05 11:12

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.

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