I think that defining a Field in the model as "list: string" give you that functionality without further configuration (just creating a common web2py form intance). For using new lines you should use the TEXTAREA tag (used for "text" type fields), and split the input string with the Python built-in string manipulation functions at the controller.
On 22 feb, 17:24, Larry Wapnitsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Disclaimer: I'm new to Web2py (2 days and loving it) and re-learning HTML > after many years away from it. > > I have a large text field on a form whose input will be a list of items > entered by the user, separated by some sort of delimiter (most likely a > newline). Each valid line item will be entered into the database as its > own entity. > > How do I go about parsing this text box? Everything I've seen so far talks > about fields that come from/go to a database, but this one doesn't do so > directly. > > Let me know if I need to clarify. > > Thanks, > Larry
