[4.x]: Single line postcode formula input can break formulas added in Craft3

[chrismou]

What happened?

Description

I've just noticed the postcode formula box in shipping zones has changed from a textarea to a single line input in Craft4

There's a couple of issues here, especially when dealing with complex rules. One is that a textarea allowed us to format the rule with spacing and multi lines to make it more readable, eg:

Another, tying into this, is that the newline character is now ignored, effectively breaking the rule, eg

Craft3

Craft4

Note the lack of space now between the closing bracket and the OR. This works for now because I assume it's still saved with the newline, but I would guess that if I now hit save, it would strip out newline and the rule would break

I appreciate that these could be reformatted, but it'll just make life a lot more difficult for the next developer who's asked to make a "quick change" to the formula :sweat_smile:

Is there any way this could be changed back to a textarea?

Craft CMS version

4.x

Craft Commerce version

4.x

PHP version

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Operating system and version

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Installed plugins and versions

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[lukeholder]

Thanks for reporting this, I will take a look and let you know how we can improve the situation.

[lukeholder]

Thanks for reporting. This will be fixed for the next release. I will let you know here once it's out later today.

[lukeholder]

This was fixed in 4.5.3 thanks!