For display you could try <pre></pre> which should preserve your line breaks at least. It's been a while since I've used it so I'm unsure of it's limitations. You could also try replacing chr(10) & chr(13) with <br> to create html line breaks. As far as the strange characters it's probably the weird open and close quotes etc that word uses. There's probably a regex out there for doing the reformatting.
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Monique Boea <moniqueb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hello > > I am working on a app where users input their resumes. > > I am using a TEXT datatype for some of my fields for large areas of text > i.e. Career Summary. > > The problem is when I output the text, there is not formatting to it and it > looks like a large jumbled block of text. > > Some of the user cut and paste from Word, so there are strange characters > in the data also. > > What is the best practice for storing and outputting large bodies of text? > > Thank you. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:338904 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
