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Re: apostrophes and security

by trammell (Priest)
on Aug 15, 2005 at 15:15 UTC ( [id://483885]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to apostrophes and security

One method of deleting all undesirable characters:
$value =~ tr/A-Za-z0-9_//cd; # delete non-\w chars

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Re^2: apostrophes and security
by deadnancy (Novice) on Aug 16, 2005 at 04:27 UTC
    Thanks, trammell, but that regex kills ampersands and semicolons, both necessary for what I want to do.

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