On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:06:11AM -0500, Mumia W. wrote: > On 10/05/2006 08:47 AM, Kevin Old wrote: > >Hello everyone, > > > >I have a set of web based admin tools that users in my company use to > >update various pieces of a website. I've never been able to write > >enough regexes, "clean routines", etc. to clean out all of the "bad > >characters" that users put in. The big culprit is of course, good ole > >cut and paste. > > > >Like I said, I have several "sanitize" routines that clean control > >characters, etc. out of the input fields. Just wondering if others > >have found "the solution" for stuff like this. > > Perhaps you could look at the problem in reverse. Strip out all > characters that are not in a certain set; e.g., you might take anything > that is not a digit, space, tab, alphanumeric character, period, or > comma and delete it.
That won't work so well for characters that are garbage versions of good characters that are actually needed. Generally, quotes are there for a reason, for instance -- so just throwing away "smart quotes" rather than replacing them with standard vertical ASCII quotes might not be desirable. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] "A script is what you give the actors. A program is what you give the audience." - Larry Wall -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
