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Kevin Stock (KStock@corp.auspex.com) Wed, 04 Nov 1998 17:02:21 +0100 * Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] * Next message: Brian C. Shensky: "RE: Warning: influx of Detroit-based DBI users..." * Previous message: Tom May: "Re: $sth->rows (I'm pretty sure I know this one) and another if someo ne has time.." * Maybe in reply to: ILKER KAVAS: "html problem" * Next in thread: Randal Schwartz: "Re: html problem" *** From dbi-users -- To unsubscribe, see the end of this message. *** Fall Birahim wrote: > > Kevin Stock [SMTP:KStock@corp.auspex.com] wrote: > > > My project is about questionairefrom www by using > > > mysql and dbi. I have difficulty in screening the > > > questions because these includes <,>,-,=,\,/and so > > > on. I thought that I can store my data in html > > > format so when I print them from a perl program > > > they can be displayed but since the questions will > > > be entred from www. so I need a filter that > > > converts a text to html ...(little bit long a) > > > > > > Is there anything that can help me? > > > > This isn't really a dbi question, but... > > > > s/&/ /g <--- this one must be first > > s/</</g > > etc > Shoudn't it be > s/&/&/g <--- this one must be first > > instead of > s/&/ /g <--- this one must be first > > & is the hml scape for ampersand! Correct, sorry. Just a typo to see if you're all awake :-) === Randal Schwartz (merlyn@stonehenge.com) 05 Nov 1998 07:50:57 -0700 * Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] * Next message: Michael Peppler: "Newbie Question - Retrieving Text Data Type" * Previous message: Steven Barber: "Progress DBD?" * In reply to: Kevin Stock: "Re: html problem" *** From dbi-users -- To unsubscribe, see the end of this message. *** >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Stock <KStock@corp.auspex.com> writes: >> & is the hml scape for ampersand! Kevin> Correct, sorry. Just a typo to see if you're all awake :-) And the right way to do it so that you don't do the wrong things, and also handle all the high-bit chars correctly, is this: use HTML::Entities; $escaped = encode_entities($raw); :-) ===