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I have a textarea and when I select text in it and hit another button I need to prepend certain characters to the fron of each line when I hit a certain submit button
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I have a textarea and when I select text in it and hit another button I need to prepend certain characters to the fron of each line when I hit a certain submit button

Process is performed on selected text in TextArea

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