Re: [WEB400] unescape()

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there a a reason you're not letting QtmhCvtDB or
QzhbCGIParse do this for you?

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:33:50 -0500
 "Joel R. Cochran" <jrc@masi-brac.com> wrote:
> Remember Charlie Brown?
>
> "AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
> HHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
>
> Thanks Jim :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@celsinc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 4:54 PM
> To: 'web400@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: [WEB400] unescape()
>
>
> try '\n' instead.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel R. Cochran [mailto:jrc@masi-brac.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 1:58 PM
> To: 'web400@midrange.com'
> Subject: [WEB400] unescape()
>
>
> I have a CGI-RPGIV web site.  I run all incoming parms
> through an #escape()
> routine to convert special codes (like %2F for '/') to
> their actual
> characters.  I have added a <textarea> to one of my
> screens and for the
> first time I have to deal with forced line breaks
> (enter).  The code comes
> in as '%0D%0A'.  I tried converting this to '/n' thinking
> that the
> JavaScript that re-populates the form later would read
> that and break, but
> instead it actually shows the '/n' as part of the text.
>
> My conclusion is that I need a simple #unescape()
> routine, but what do I
> convert this to so that the browser will understand this
> is a line break?
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Joel
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Bradley V. Stone
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