Fw: [thelist] Formatting text fields

Tue Feb 6 06:32:37 CST 2001

On 2/6/01 at 8:44 PM, adrian at logo-logic.com (Adrian Fischer) wrote:

> > I take it you would only see the results from this when you retrieve it
> from
> > the db or file were it is saved to?  I was hoping to be able to display
> the
> > formatted text on a preview screen before saving to file.  This doesnt
> seem
> > to be able to be done
> >

Sure it does, look at http://www.e-fishsolutions.com/test.html

Here's the script it's using:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
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# Parse form data

   read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
   if (length($buffer) < 5) {
         $buffer = $ENV{QUERY_STRING};
    }

  @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
   foreach $pair (@pairs) {
      ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);

      $value =~ tr/+/ /;
      $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

      $form{$name} = $value;
   }

# Add <P>'s and <BR>'s

$form{'PARA2'}=~s/\r\n\cM\n/<P>/g;
$form{'PARA2'}=~s/\r\n/<BR>/g;

# Print Results to Screen

    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
    print "<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>";
    print "$form{'PARA2'}";
    print "</BODY></HTML>";

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