SPUG: Removing newlines from a multi-line string

[David Vergin]

If you are on Windows, you are dealing with two characters at the end of each
line: \r and \n.
(And you don't need /i (case-insensitive matches)). So try:

    $html =~ s/[\n\r]//g;

dv

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-spug-list at pm.org [mailto:owner-spug-list at pm.org]On Behalf Of
> Joshua Lanza
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:01 AM
> To: spug-list at pm.org
> Subject: SPUG: Removing newlines from a multi-line string
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a script that gets a chunk of HTML from an access database and plunks
> it into a template.  The problem is that it puts newline characters in the
> HTML at the end of every line in the HTML blob, which is (1) unseemly and
> (2) making it difficult to manipulate the text after the pages are
> generated.
>
> I store the text in $html and then try
>
>         $html =~ s/\n//ig;
>
> but nothing seems to happen.  If this worked it would solve (2) from above
> but wouldn't help (1).  I guess what I'm really looking for is why I'm
> getting the extra newlines in the first place.  Any thoughts greatly
> appreciated,
>
> Josh
>
>
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