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Jun 5, 2003, 11:36 AM
BLOOD
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Jun 5, 2003, 11:36 AM
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What are these doing?
Just a quick question...

Messing around with a script and this is present:

$VALUE{'MESSAGE'} =~ tr/\$\\\`\+\<\>\/\;\|/_/;

$VALUE{'MESSAGE'} =~ s/\r//g;

I think the first one is removing potentialy harmful characters from an input (via the form) but what is the second one doing?

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Jun 5, 2003, 12:03 PM
Andy
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Jun 5, 2003, 12:03 PM
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The second one is changing \r (enter, or return values) into blanks. For example;

this
is
a
test

would be changed to;

thisisatest

At least thats what I think. I'm not totally definate what \r means Tongue

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Jun 5, 2003, 12:20 PM
BLOOD
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Jun 5, 2003, 12:20 PM
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Cheers.

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