How to detect blank lines in <textarea>
I have a form the uses <textarea> ... </textarea> to pick up large amounts of test. I proceess the results with an asp script.
How can I detect blank lines in the incoming text? I need to process differently with blank lines in the input form field.
How can I detect blank lines in the incoming text? I need to process differently with blank lines in the input form field.
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You have to check for a pair of either cr&lf, lf or cr. Seeing a pair of the forementioned denote a 'blank' line. You can't do it with the code you have because you have to find a pir of the chars. Use InStr() to find the position of the first cr/lf character. Then depending on which set of characters is encountered, there will be either 2 or four characters to deal with, beginning with the integer returned by the InStr().
You could always use the replace command to switch the VBCRLF, CR, LF, etc to a more freindly character such as ~, then use your code checking for ~ signs instead?
e.g
str=Replace(Request.Form("
str=Replace(str, chr(10), "~")
str=Replace(str, chr(13), "~")
ln = len(str)
for i = 1 to ln
if mid(str,i,1) = "~" then
' logic for blank line
else
' regular logic
end if
next
e.g
str=Replace(Request.Form("
str=Replace(str, chr(10), "~")
str=Replace(str, chr(13), "~")
ln = len(str)
for i = 1 to ln
if mid(str,i,1) = "~" then
' logic for blank line
else
' regular logic
end if
next
ASKER
So I could do something like this:
str = Request.Form("textArea")
ln = len(str)
for i = 1 to ln
if mid(str,i,1) = Chr(13) or mid(str,i,10) = Chr(10) then
' logic for blank line
else
' regular logic
end if
next