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How can I encode a string for HTML?

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I'm looking for a simple way to HTML encode a string/object in Perl. The fewer additional packages used the better.

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Phill Pafford Avatar asked Jan 20 '10 21:01

Phill Pafford


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HTML::Entities is your friend here.

use HTML::Entities; my $encoded = encode_entities( "foo & bar & <baz>" ); 
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friedo Avatar answered Sep 29 '22 07:09

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