Hi David, David Dorward wrote on 11.05.2004:
>On 11 May 2004, at 14:58, Jan Eden wrote: >>how can I escape quotes within a variable's content? I use the >>following directive to fill an HTML form: <input type="text" >>name="frage_text" size="100" value="$frage_text" /> Unfortunately, >>if $frage_text contains a double quote, the browser will stop >>displaying the string at that point. I tried to escape the quotes >>in a Perl way $frage_text =~ s/"/\\"/g; > >In HTML characters are 'escaped' by converting them to entities. >&entityName; Quote marks are " > >You probably want to use escapeHTML() from the CGI module. Doh. I have been working on the script for several hours now and forgot the most simple things about HTML. Thanks, Jan -- Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
