On Thursday 29 September 2005 3:37 pm, Cirez Communications, inc. wrote: > Quick q: > > In trying to sanitaze user input (I know, I know, there is no easy way > to do this), is there is rather fast/uncomplicated way to accomplish > this? > > A quick and dirty way to do this in perl is to create a hash with the > ilegal characters and its replacements (key/value), then create a sub > that takes a dirty string as argument, look it up and return the > sanitized version. This is all well and good; but trying to do the > same in Java it's rather resource intensive. > > Is there a simple way to accomplish this, given a list of 25 or so > character to scrubb? I don't want to delete the characters just return > the ASCII code in HTML compatible format i.e ASCII (67) as C > Using java's: (Object).replace(dirty_string, sanitized_string); for > every possible character takes way to much time and resources... > --
Is it too slow to create 2 arrays, arr_dirty and arr_replace, then loop through? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
