How to retain carriage return and spaces in a report..

Hi everyone,
I have a TEXT AREA where users enter comments in that like
First record
Hi           Carriage returns          spaces
Second record
Hi
carriage returns
spaces
Third record
Hi
     carriage returns
                             spaces
Is it possible to retain the carriage returns and spaces when i am displaying the records in a report.
For carriage returns i replaced chr(10) with '
(without the single quotes). I works fine. But how i can i retain the spacesplease give me some suggestions
Thanks
phani

Hi dimitri,
Thanks for the reply
For carriage returns i am doing like this replace(column_name,chr(10),'<"br">') (Ignore the double quotes)
For spaces is there any ASCII code like chr(10) for carriage returns..
I mean how to identify Number of spaces in database..
Thanks
phani
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