displaying long strings

[christine lorraine]

hi, i inputted a string in a text area where
i used <enter> to start new lines and then saved
it in the database. when i retrieved the string
from the database the format is retained when i
display it in a textarea but when i tried to
display it in an ordinary table the supposedly
next line of strings was displayed on the same line.
how do i go about this?
thanks.

[David O'Meara]

This sounds like a HTML problem: the carriage return or line feeds are being ignored by the browser.
You can either wrap the table data contents in a presentation tag
<pre>present \n this \n\t data</pre>
or you can use a StringTokenizer to cut the end of line characters and swop them with a HTML break <br>
I hope I understood correctly...
Dave

[christine lorraine]

it worked! many thanks to you.
i preferred <pre></pre> tag because it
seemed to work faster than manipulating
the string using String Tokenizer.
thanks again