From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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To: | Jeffrey Melloy <jmelloy(at)visualdistortion(dot)org> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Weird psql problem |
Date: | 2003-08-27 12:48:09 |
Message-ID: | 20030827124809.GD17755@svana.org |
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:06:51AM -0500, Jeffrey Melloy wrote:
> I recently noticed that in my web app, a \n wasn't getting converted to
> a <br />. (The problem turned out to be that for this particular
> record, it was a \r).
>
> When I checked out the record in psql, I got some weird behavior.
>
> What shows up in the web:
> amoth4:it is o.o
> jm:Speaking of being a sounding board, will you test something?
> jm:Ot
> jm:It's pretty quick
On many terminals, \r jumps back to the beginning of the line. Hence in this
example:
> jm:It's pretty quick | 4 | 126 | 's' 'jm' 'ot' 'o.o'
> 'test' 'board' 'quick' 'sound' 'speak' 'amoth4' 'pretti' 'someth'
you're not seeing the starting text because it's overwritten by the later
text.
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> "All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good
> men to do nothing." - Edmond Burke
> "The penalty good people pay for not being interested in politics is to be
> governed by people worse than themselves." - Plato
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