Hi, I'm having problem with control characters submitted thru a 'text are element'. here is the situation: 1. I've a form which has a text are element: 2. user puts a text there by doing a cut/paste from somewhere. Some cotrol characters are put because of doing cut and paste. 3. When I get the text from the form and run it thru a parser, it says documnet is not well formed because of the control charcater. here is one such text: ********** $100 million-saving the -- is a control character ****** I'm using cgi module to get the values from the form and XML::simple module to parse. any idea how do i filter out these control charcates while I get the values from the form. ben
