Re^3: View The HTML ???

[Aristotle]

Update: I'm a klutz.. don't forget to see asarih's reply below.

FWIW, you need to add s/&/&/g; to your substitutions for a minimal escaping solution.

Also, you must terminate your entities with a semicolon - it's < and not &lt. (Well, the latter is acceptable in some cases under SGML, but don't go there unless you like headaches.)

A few style suggestions on your code - try something like this:

s/</&lt;/ for @HTML;
s/>/&gt;/ for @HTML;
s/&/&amp;/ for @HTML;

print '<textarea>', join("", @HTML), '</textarea>';

Much easier on the eyes, no? Anyway, as I've already said:

use CGI qw(:standard);
print textarea('', escapeHTML(join '', @HTML));

Makeshifts last the longest.

[asarih]

If you don't want to use CGI.pm, don't forget /g regex modifier, and remember to substitute the ampersands first, then angle brackets.

[halley]

If you're not going to use the CGI or other already-invented wheels, do make sure you get your ordering right, or you'll end up with <BR>  all over the place.

for (@HTML) {
    s/&/&/g;
    s/</&lt;/g;
    s/>/&gt;/g;
}

If you really wanted to use the map method, you don't need intermediate variables for each possible step. @finished = map { ... } map { ... } map { ... } @originals works just fine. (The last mentioned map is performed first.)

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