strip metacharacters from form

[David Nicol]

    $value =~ s/\W/ /g



On 8/3/05, Don Erickson <derick at zeni.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Jack wrote:
> 
> > Anyone have a quick way to take the value of a text
> > area and strip out the bad characters?
> 
> Depending on what you're going to do with it, in php
> escapeshellcmd(htmlentities(addslashes($_POST[text_area)))
> would be a good start.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Don
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