[thelist] two few CF formatting function ?'s

jon steele jjsteele22 at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 31 13:41:01 CST 2002


Thanks Nathan.

--- Nathan Dintenfass <nathan at changemedia.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, it is not even as simple as that.
>
> In Windows land, CRLF is the rule.
>
> In Unix land, just LF.
>
> In Macintosh land, just CR.
>
> You can read many different places this causes issues with a quick search of
> google:
>
> http://google.com/search?hl=en&q=CRLF+LF+CR+Unix+Windows+Macintosh
>
> If you want to be really thorough, replace all CRLF [chr(13)&chr(10)] with
> LF [chr(10)] and then all CR [chr(13)] with LF [chr(10)], then run your
> replace with just CHR(10).
>
> If you have CF 5 and want to use a UDF for this, it might look like:
>
> <cfscript>
> function displayFormat(str){
> 	//first make Windows style into Unix style
> 	str = replace(str,chr(13)&chr(10),chr(10),"ALL");
> 	//now make Macintosh style into Unix style
> 	str = replace(str,chr(13),chr(10),"ALL");
> 	//now return the text formatted in HTML
> 	return replace(str,chr(10),"<br />","ALL");
> }
> </cfscript>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> > [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of jon steele
> > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 8:58 AM
> > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: Re: [thelist] two few CF formatting function ?'s
> >
> >
> > > In modern applications, there really is no "CR" that I've been able to
> > > determine, at least most of the time; it's always the combination,
> > > "CRLF". Stripping both the ASCII 10 and ASCII 13 characters is the only
> > > way to be thorough.
> >
> > It's CRLF?!? All this time I have been using LFCR in my replaces...
> >
> > Replace(Chr(10)&Chr(13),"<p>",textFromTextArea,"all")
> >
> > So I should be using Chr(13)&Chr(10)?
> >
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