Removing Unwanted Characters From a Web Form Submission

[Gregory Lypny]

Thank you Devin,

Excellent!  And I will mess around with urlDecode and urlEncode as you suggested.

Gregory


Gregory Lypny
    
Associate Professor of Finance
John Molson School of Business
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada





On Mon, Nov 8, 2010, at 10:51 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Gregory,
> 
> If you want to be sure of catching all line delimiting characters you could do this:
> 
>  replace (numToChar(13) & numToChar(10)) with space in tComments
>  replace numToChar(13) with space in tComments
>  replace numToChar(10) with space in tComments
> 
> As far as which other characters you should remove, have you considered just using urlEncode/urlDecode? It's not specifically intended for this situation, but I would think urlEncode would safely convert any problematic characters, then you could urlDecode the string before you display it again.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Devin
> 
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University