TextArea html formated var to coldfusion

[daj]

Hi All
I have a TextArea with html enabled. When I try to pass that data to coldfusion it breaks my cf script that receives it. The script works fine if I send the data from an html form. When it comes from an html form it converts special charecters such as # to the html equivalent. However from flash it comes as # which then breaks the cf code. Any help to get my html code into cf so it can be sent in an html formated email would be great.

thanx

[BobJohnson]

You could loop through every character of the string in AS to check for those kinds of characters, but that would be a pain. I don't know my CF, but I bet there's a function that strips # and similar characters, like stripslashes() in PHP.

Edit: from LiveDocs...

REReplace(string, reg_expression, substring [, scope ])

In your case, the reg_expression would be the #.

[daj]

I not sure but most strange charecters were breaking it. I found this great how to for sending data from flash to coldfusion.

http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/...ng_forms10.html

solved the broblem and sends data back so thats a plus.

thanx dave