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Chris Welch wrote:
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:Chris Welch wrote:I have a dilemma, I am processing CGI forms and I need to come up with a regex that will accept HTML entities (i.e., " or {),
Your description makes me fear that you are somewhat off track. *Why* would you need such a regex?
If you explain more about the context, it would be easier to advise.
Basically I am going to turn some funny characters into HTML entities using the aforementioned HTML::Entities so I can display them in a HTML page. I therefore need to accept them, but also the other chars.
I can understand that you want to validate the other ("funny") characters, but I don't understand why your validation regex would need to include HTML entities. Isn't HTML encoding something *you* do, before display but after validation?
As far as I am aware HTML::Entities will only turn characters into their HTML entity equivalent and vice versa, depending on the function used, correct?
Yes.
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