If someone types a " is there a way to make the script convert it to a ' ?

Maybe:
$rec{'Description'} =~ s/"/'/g;

would that work ?

Yep. That'll work.


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JPD

Well it didn't work if I put in in the .pl file, but it did work when I put it in the .cgi file and used:

$in{'Description'} =~ s/"/''/g;

BTW, if you look closely, you'll notice I converted a " to 2 single 'quotes'. The output looks just like a real quote"

Problems solved.


[This message has been edited by Katana Man (edited March 14, 1999).]

Odd that it didn't work in the html.pl file. But whatever works! Congrats!!!


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JPD

i need this feature too,

where EXACTLY do I put it in the script?

thanx, now i need to go the other way around.

we are building an events calendar and we need to sort an alphanumeric and display odd dates like "TBA"

so we want data in the database to convert on the fly:

"m-02" becomes "February"

can anyone help?

thanx

I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly, but if I am, you can make conversions in html.pl, sub html_record before the info is printed.

Just after

%rec = @_;

add your conversions like:

$rec{'Date'} =~ s/m-02/February/g;

The syntax is
s/[part you want replaced]/[what you want to replace it with]/g;



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JPD

It would go in sub add_record, just before

$status = &validate_record;



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JPD