RE: Special Characters with CGIDEV2

You need to use the ENCODE() procedure provided with CGIDEV2. It will
handle strings up to 32767. It will only handle the characters ", &, <, >.
Make sure that the input field isn't too close in size to 32767 or your
output field will be truncated.


Chuck


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Florin Todor - YYZ Concord
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 12:02 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Special Characters with CGIDEV2


Hello,



I am trying to display Spool files in a browser using RPG and CGIDEV2
functionality; the problem appears when inside the Spool file there are
special characters like & < > (I update the HTML variables using
updHTMLvar() function)

How is it possible to "trick" the XML to not consider these characters
as special ones? I found a function htmlentities(), but it seems like
this function is not available with CGIDEV2.



Thanks,



Florin Todor

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