------------------------------------------------ On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:29:08 -0500, "Josh Corbalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm writing a webmin module and I'm trying to add a search function > > in right now but after I search for it and try to display the output > > it has a problem with the way the output is formatted. > > > > print "searchtest<gimp><10>"; will print searchtest<10> > > print "searchtest< gimp><10>"; will print searchtest< gimp><10> > > > > I don't understand why it will not print any of what is inside the > > <> if what is right next to the < is a letter. Numbers and spaces > > will print everything on the line but a letter discards everything > > in the brackets. I've tried to escape the special meaning of the <> > > characters when used with a word but it didn't work. Does anybody > > out there have any insight into this problem? > > OK I have some more information about the initial problem as described above. > The problem isn't really with perl at all but with HTML as this is printing to > a web page. HTML is taking the <gimp> to be a command for it to execute > instead of plain text in a string. Should I design a regexp to replace all < > and > with something else? If so how would I replace something using a regexp? > I've never used regexps before so some help on this would be great. > The client (browser) is assuming <gimp> is a tag which was my initial thought, because tags can't start with digits your numerical content was working ok. Yes you can replace the < and > with the special HTML replacement characters, > and < and one easy method to do this is with a regexp. There are also modules that provide this type of functionality, in particular if you are already using the CGI module you should have a look at the "escapeHTML" function. The following substituitions are possibly an oversimplified way of handling this. $string =~ s/>/>/g; $string =~ s/</</g; The using a module is still the better approach from a completeness standpoint. http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
