--- Jeremy Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I have a form in which people can enter text, and then my perlscript spits it 
> back out onto a web page.  I know that if someone were to enter html code as 
> text, then it could/would screw up the generated page.  Is there a standard 
> way to handle this?  Or will I need to just parse through the input string 
> and pick out all the brackets?
> 
> Thanks 

use HTML::Entities;
my $data = encode_entities( $text_for_web_page ); # data now safe for web page

Cheers,
Curtis "Ovid" Poe

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Senior Programmer
Onsite! Technology (http://www.onsitetech.com/)
"Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/

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