trying to secure text input.

2002-01-28 Thread Luinrandir Hernson
Below is the code i'm using to filter out non alphanumeric charecters... however when i type ?!$BOB yeilds this: -_3f_21_24bob- The ?!$ should be stripped away and come back empty, not _3f_21_24 ANY ideas as to what I'm doing wrong??? I'm asking for an email address. my $eaddress = ""; rea

Re: trying to secure text input.

2002-01-28 Thread Jeff Bisbee
* Luinrandir Hernson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Below is the code i'm using to filter out non alphanumeric charecters... however >when i type > ?!$BOB > yeilds this: > -_3f_21_24bob- What's happening is that your string '?!$BOB' is being URL encoded (standard CGI procedure) and being tran