Perl equivalent of htmlspecialchars()

[Yogi]

Hi,

I am looking for perl equivalent of PHP functions htmlspecialchars()
and stripslashes() to parse a html page. Any pointers will be of
great help.

Regards,
-Yogesh

 

[Ben Bullock]

I am looking for perl equivalent of PHP functions htmlspecialchars()

There are lots of ways to do it, try the HTML::Entities module:

http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/HTML-Parser-3.56/lib/HTML/Entities.pm

and stripslashes() to parse a html page.

stripslashes seems to be something like

s/\\//g;

in Perl.

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I am looking for perl equivalent of PHP functions htmlspecialchars()

That would be CGI.pm's escapeHTML() function.

and stripslashes()

Don't know about any function. I'd make use of the s/// operator.

 

[Yogi]

There are lots of ways to do it, try the HTML::Entities module:

http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/HTML-Parser-3.56/lib/HTML/Entities.pm


stripslashesseems to be something like

s/\\//g;

inPerl.

Thanks Ben for your input. HTML::Entities seems to solve my
puzzle.
will use Regex for stripslashes. Thanks again.

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Transliteration is more appropriate for operating on characters
(regexes are better for operating on patterns):

tr/\\//d;

True, but are we really talking about simple character removals here? I
thought we were rather talking about something like

s/(^|[^\\])\\(['"\\0])/$1.($2 eq '0' ? "\0" : $2)/eg

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stripslashes.php

 

[Tad J McClellan]

On May 20, 12:35 pm, (e-mail address removed) (Ben Bullock) wrote:


will use Regex for stripslashes. Thanks again.

Transliteration is more appropriate for operating on characters
(regexes are better for operating on patterns):


tr/\\//d;