From: drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 07:15 , Kris G Findlay wrote:
>
> > ok exact problem !!
> >
> > Example data inputed via form :
> > 'here is a quote "this Quote".' # which is passes to variable
> > $document
> >
> > if i use hidden fields in a html form to store these variables while
> > the page displays a preview eg print "<input type=\"hidden\"
> > name=\"hiddenField\" value=\"$document\ ">"
> >
> > the html page returned displays corectly and all data is in source
> > eg <input type="hidden" name="hiddenField" value="here is a quote
> > "this Quote".">" but when form is submited to cgi the data after the
> > extra quote mark is missing
>
> [..]
>
> $hiddenField = param('hiddenField');
>
> $hiddenField =~ s/\"/\\\"/g; # \\ - insert \ and \" guard my "
>
> which I think would work ....
No it will not.
The " should be replaced by " or ".
This is the safest method:
use HTML::Entities;
$hiddenField = encode_entities(param('hiddenField'));
$html = qq{<input type=hidden name=something
value="$hiddenfield">};
Jenda
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