Passing value from a Text Area field

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Motty

Hi I'm trying to pass the value of a 'text box area' using
response.redirect, the .asp page and a list of parameters in the form
of page.asp?p1=request("fieldname")
All is OK with regular fields (text or numeric) but I get only the
first line of the Text Area.
Is there a way to pass all lines?

Thanks
 
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Hi
Howdy.

I'm trying to pass the value of a 'text box area' using
response.redirect, the .asp page and a list of parameters
in the form of page.asp?p1=request("fieldname")
All is OK with regular fields (text or numeric) but I get
only the first line of the Text Area. Is there a way to
pass all lines?
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This is happening because the field value contains special
characters (i.e. line endings). The fix is to run your
form field value through the Server.UrlEncode method, as
in:

page.asp?p1=Server.UrlEncode(request("fieldname"))

This converts CR LF sequences, for example, to %0D%0A. The
Request object in the receiving ASP page will convert
these back to CR LF.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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