On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:08:48PM -0400, jesse wrote:
> I am creating a program, yet again. How this works is,
>
> a zope factory calls a form, which submits data from a <textarea> to a DTML
>document. I want this DTML document to take the data from the form and display it on
>multiple lines. For instance:
>
> If a person fills out the textarea like so:
>
> First line
> second line
> third line
>
> I want the DTML document to print out:
>
> First line
> second line
> third line
>
> The only problem is, when the <textarea> submits to the document, (lets say the
>textarea is called list), it submits it as a dictionary. That means all the data is
>on a SINGLE STRING. So the data from the form looks like this.
>
> <dtml-var "REQUEST.form"> =
> {'list': 'first line/015/012second line/015/012third line'}
>
> the /015/012 represent the line breaks.
>
> Seeing this, i used the replace function in zope, trying to replace the line breaks
>with <br>, which would be accepted by html. however, whenever you try and access the
>information in the form as a string...
>
> <dtml-var "REQUEST.form['list']">
>
> it comes out with
>
> line one line two line three
>
> All the line breaks dissapear! So there is nothing to replace! Does anyone have any
>ideas how I could solve this problem?
>
A couple of questions:
- You say that <dtml-var "REQUEST.form['list']"> returns
line one line two line three
Is that in your browser window, or did you view the source html?
- Does <dtml-var "_.string.replace(REQUEST.form['list'], '\015\012',
'<br>')" > work?
--
Patrick Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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