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ASP Classic - Insert text, Line breaks and Code

Hello All;

How we supply code here on EE and other sites around the web.
We are able to place code between the code tags.
As well as having our text create line breaks, and then display here to the page,
on the lines
that we originally wrote them on.

My question is this.

I can do a replace during processing, to replace all with something like this.

SQLRemoveString = Replace(SQLRemoveString,vblf,"<br />")
' code information
' about the code goes here.

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However, that will replace all the text that is written inside of the CODE tags as well.

How would you write it so that the text is sent to the database with the same carriage returns as I wrote it here?
And the text within the CODE tags, stays the same as it is written, without replacing are carriage returns, with 's during the output back to the page?

(The code tags is something that I have struggled with for years, and asked about several years ago as well. So hopefully, someone will some better incite can shed some like on this issue.)

Wayne

Wayne Barron

ASKER

I just checked the code here, and every line is wrapped with a tag.

How would you do something like this?

Say you have this.

This is information about
what I want to do.

'the code
'will go here

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And then more information goes here.

Wayne Barron

ASKER

OK, I can do something like this, which works.

testText = replace(request.Form("Thetext"),vblf,"</span>"&vblf&"<span>")

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OR (If I do not want the tags, I can do it this way)

testText = replace(request.Form("Thetext"),vblf,vblf)

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How would this be used so that it only does the or vblf within the code tags, and the throughout the rest of the text submitted?

David Johnson, CD

you can't do the entire form at once. i.e. for EE you would process word by word or character by character and if you hit a {code} then skip until the {/code}

Wayne Barron

ASKER

I have thought about that as well, but how would you skip that tag, is the question?

Wayne Barron

ASKER

OK, after looking at some Forum ASP scripts (Poorly written crap, to be honest with you)
I found out that.
#1:
The text is sent to the Database with all carriage returns.
#2:
When it is processed back to the page, is when it is coded to add where needed, and NOT in between the code tags.

The script that I looked at, is so poorly written, that it is hard to find out how anything works.
I got so disgusted while looking through it, that I about lost my mind.
I had to delete it.
I might take a breather and download it again, and take a look and see IF I can find where it does the processing at.
If I can get past the entire page written in .write.....

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Wayne Barron

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Provided the code I found to do what I needed it to do.
Very happy right now, very happy.

Wayne