escaping or encoding line break

[Claus Mygind]

The following line causes a "unterminat ed string literal" error when the string from a LONGTXT field contains a hard return (paragraph marker, whatever).

[CODE=javascript]eval("var result = " + string)[/CODE]

How can I escape and still preserve the hard return?

[Claus Mygind]

The following line causes a "unterminat ed string literal" error when the string from a LONGTXT field contains a hard return (paragraph marker, whatever).

eval("var result = " + string)

How can I escape and still preserve the hard return?

I see that I need to use the replace( ) method

ie:

[CODE=javascript]newString = string.replace( ??, "\n")[/CODE]

I just don't know how to identify the hard return in the string.

[gits]

try this:

[CODE=javascript]var newString = string.replace(/(\r)/g, '\n')[/CODE]
\r is a carriage return ...

kind regards

[Claus Mygind]

Thanks for the reply. My problem is this. How do Identify the line break. It is not a visible character? I want to replace the line break with the escaped character. Or perhaps I need to identify both the "carriage return" and the "line break" and replace them with "\r\n"

[Claus Mygind]

Ok I think I may have figured it out

//this line replace the escaped line feed with a carriage return
var yData = xData.replace( /%A/g, "\r").

But I am not sure if that is how identify the hidden carriage return

[gits]

hmmm ... i think the following replace should work, when you want to replace the linebreak with a carriage return:

[CODE=javascript]var yData = xData.replace(/(\n|\r\n)/g, '\r');[/CODE]
kind regards