On Jul 25, Teresa Raymond said:

>I tried the following code to test for bad characters but keep 
>getting my error msg though the values passed do not contain chars 
>that are not "A-Za-z0-9_@.-" (I also reread my last post and found 
>that my English articulation was very poor, I'm grateful that anyone 
>responded!).

You're using !=, when you "meant" to use !~, but you really want to use =~

>{if ($params{$i}!=m/[^\w@.-]/g)

  if ($params{$i} =~ /[^\w\@.-]/) {
    # badness
  }

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