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  • dbee
    #1

    Mysterious missing newlines ...

    Hi,

    So I'm having a problem with disappearing newlines. I import the
    newlines from a file into my shell script fine. But then I process the
    text and the url_encode comes out the other end with linefeeds intact
    but no newlines.

    Also any single quotes in my file give me a T_STRING unexpected error
    in my output ... even though I'm using rawurlencode(). I've tried
    escaping them in my text but no luck there.
    I can live without the single quotes, but I need newlines in my output.

    URL="`cat job_description `"

    URL_ENCODED_DES CRIPTION=`php -r "echo rawurlencode('$ URL');"`

    .... the single quotes works fine - the php function returns a value -
    so that's not a problem.

    Can anyone help me get a urlencoded string with newlines intact ?
    Otherwise I'm just left with a lump of text.
    Also I can't use <br> or \n in my output because my message board won't
    parse them ... :-)

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    • Carl Vondrick
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      Re: Mysterious missing newlines ...

      dbee wrote:[color=blue]
      > Hi,
      >
      > So I'm having a problem with disappearing newlines. I import the
      > newlines from a file into my shell script fine. But then I process the
      > text and the url_encode comes out the other end with linefeeds intact
      > but no newlines.
      >
      > Also any single quotes in my file give me a T_STRING unexpected error
      > in my output ... even though I'm using rawurlencode(). I've tried
      > escaping them in my text but no luck there.
      > I can live without the single quotes, but I need newlines in my output.
      >
      > URL="`cat job_description `"
      >
      > URL_ENCODED_DES CRIPTION=`php -r "echo rawurlencode('$ URL');"`
      >
      > ... the single quotes works fine - the php function returns a value -
      > so that's not a problem.
      >
      > Can anyone help me get a urlencoded string with newlines intact ?
      > Otherwise I'm just left with a lump of text.
      > Also I can't use <br> or \n in my output because my message board won't
      > parse them ... :-)
      >[/color]

      I think I answered something like this before. My suggestion was to
      simply encode newlines using your own method. Make some escape key that
      would act as a newline.

      Carl

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      Carl Vondrick
      Carl Vondrick - Columbia University
      https://www.carlsoft.net
      Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, researching computer vision, machine learning, and AI applications.

      usenet [at] carlsoft [dot] net

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