# Little question, returns in a string

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-question-returns-in-a-string/157968
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 5, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-question-returns-in-a-string/157968 "2005-08-05T14:30:41Z")
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### Author: ![Breen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Breen](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Breen)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/little-question-returns-in-a-string/157968/1 "2005-08-05T14:30:41Z")

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Hi,

I’m making a contact form, and using a textArea to allow the user to add a little formatting to his text, like returns.

Now, obviously, im sending this message to php, via LoadVars, but in the process flash leaves out the returns (probably, because it gets encoded to be sent to php)

Is there a way to extract any returns, and replace them with "  
" for example,

Hope I am making any sense, here