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JSON and Fields with Carriage Returns
I am using JSON with AJAX. There are two problems when sending data from a textarea.
1) If there is no carriage return manually entered in the text area, the last line is not inserted into the database
2) when reading the data back from the db, the JSON looks something like this:
{textareadata : "hello
world
this is me"
and the browser hangs.
How do I get around this?
1) If there is no carriage return manually entered in the text area, the last line is not inserted into the database
2) when reading the data back from the db, the JSON looks something like this:
{textareadata : "hello
world
this is me"
and the browser hangs.
How do I get around this?
I usally replace \r and \n to the unicode line feed or a carriage return: \u000A or \u000D. So my code may look something like this:
string safeForJSON = unicodeReturn.Replace(esca
and my json data may look like this:
This is my json data. \u000A\u000AI am a scary badger...growl!
string safeForJSON = unicodeReturn.Replace(esca
and my json data may look like this:
This is my json data. \u000A\u000AI am a scary badger...growl!
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In PHP ...
<?php
$s_Text = <<<END_TEXT
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
END_TEXT;
echo json_encode($s_Text);
outputs ...
"Line 1\r\nLine 2\r\nLine 3"
I'm on windows, so \r\n is normal for me. On *nix systems \r only. Not sure about other OS's.