SPUG: Removing newlines from a multi-line string

[Joshua Lanza]

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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