[thelist] Form Text Area Paste from Outlook Problem

ADOLPH TRUDEAU ATRUDEAU at NMSSLONESTAR.org
Wed Feb 27 09:26:27 CST 2002


Thank you for the tip Nick. I think I am going to check and see if we can
get that and something like chomp in there too so we don't have extra spaces
in the db. If anyone reading this has an idea of what the asp function to
escape out special characters is, please let me know.

Thanks!

Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:48:15 +0100
From: Nick Wilson <nick at explodingnet.com>
To: "'thelist at lists.evolt.org'" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject: Re: [thelist] Form Text Area Paste from Outlook Problem
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org

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* and then ADOLPH TRUDEAU declared....
> Hi,
> I have people pasting text from outlook into a web form. The text is not
> being picked up by the responding script. This is giving me a headache
with
> an asp script but I have noticed it once before with cold fusion. It seems
> as if this is happening because outlook is pasting some offending special
> character in the text box. Has anyone out there encountered this/found a
> fix? I'm just getting started researching a fix, so any input would be
> helpful.


In PHP I'd be looking at addslashes() which will escape any special
chars so the data is suitable for db insertion. I'm sure ASP has an
equivalent.
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