On Nov 14, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:

On Nov 14, 2007 2:40 PM, madhtr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quick question, are there any native functions in PostGreSQL 8.1.4 that will
strip HTML tags, escape chars, etc?

I can't think of a lot of native functions, but it's sure easy enough
to roll your own with things like the regex functionality built in.

Please don't do that- there are corner cases where a naive regex can fail, leaving the programmer thinking he is covered when he is not. The variety of web languages include filtering modules (HTML::Scrubber)- in the case of Perl or PHP, it can even be run server-side.

Furthermore, one shouldn't use an API which allows for SQL injections.

Cheers,
M

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