Re: [MacPerl] Special Mac return key?

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 13.59 1998.04.22, Greg Reeves wrote:
>I don't know if this is the right place to ask questions. If not, could
>you please point me to the right place!
>
>I am trying to eliminate a mac "return" key from a text area field on a
>HTML form.
>I process the data in a perl script using all of the following:
>
>        $value =~ s/\cM\n/ /g;
>    $value =~ s/\s/ /g;
>    $value =~ s/\n\n/ /g;
>    $value =~ s/%13/ /g;
>
>but none replaces the two new line characters which seem to be generated
>by the mac return key.
>
>Do you know how to remove a mac carriage return character?

The Mac "return" key is just a Mac OS newline, \015.  The Unix newline is
\012.  The PC newline is \015\012.  The Mac carriage return does not
generate two characters, just one \015 character.

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