striping text of special characters before displaying on webpage

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ebade2000

I have this project I am working and I have two tasks

I have a text form that takes in a users input and it is supposed to be
stored in a database and can be viewed from a webpage. I want to be
able to display the text with html special characters like "<", ">" (if
the user typed them in) without it being confused for html code and...

I want to be able to replace a newline character with a "/r/n" whenever
it is used in the text.
 
Hi ebade2000,

String.Replace and Server.HtmlEncode should do the trick.

string s = "<display \r\n me>";
s = Server.HtmlEncode(s); // converts < > etc
s = s.Replace("\r\n", "<br>"); // replaces string breaks withhtml
breaks
Response.Write(s);
 
Thanks that helps a whole lot.

Bade

Morten said:
Hi ebade2000,

String.Replace and Server.HtmlEncode should do the trick.

string s = "<display \r\n me>";
s = Server.HtmlEncode(s); // converts < > etc
s = s.Replace("\r\n", "<br>"); // replaces string breaks with html
breaks
Response.Write(s);
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