RE: Special Characters with CGIDEV2

Thanks, Simon

I don't actually need to use Scan and Replace, the ENCODE() procedure
does the job for me (for these four special characters: & " < >)


Florin Todor


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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Simon Coulter
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 5:30 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Special Characters with CGIDEV2


On 29/09/2009, at 5:01 AM, Florin Todor - YYZ Concord wrote:

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.

You don't trick anything. You follow the standard and encode the
special characters (&amp; &lt; etc.). Scan and replace.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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