Premise: Inserting data into a database form a <textarea> and
displaying this data through an HTML page.
When inserting data into a database via a text area and then displaying
this data any carriage return that was entered into the database was
lost. I Created a function to replace a carriage return with a <BR>. I
call this function when I display this data.
If I enter text inside <> into a database and then display this data,
any text that was within the <> is lost because it is considered an
HTML tag. How can I search the string for the brackets and actually
diplay them? I do not want to use Server.HTMLEncode before I insert the
data into the database. This is because we often query the database
from outside a web browser.
Here is my function I have for the carriage return. I need to figure
out how to accomplish this for both < and >. I am sure this is simple
but I do not know what the .pattern should be (for a carriage return it
is "\r".
SET regQuote = New RegExp
regQuote.pattern = "\r"
regQuote.global = True
catchCR = regQuote.Replace(strText, "<br>")
Thanks in Advance. I will post this to an ASP and a VBScript Group.