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WWW form string data: best way to encode/escape string data?
I'm collecting strings from users which I need to store in an online database.
Just sending a string as-is is problematic of course. ex: "This isn't just quoted, it's "double quoted" "
And that's just quote! Not to mention & < > \ etc.
So, shoud I use WWW.EscapeURL (which seems to be URL-centric, rather than arbitrary string centric), or is there a handy System function for doing this? And the reverse of this in PHP, too, as sometimes they behave non-symetrically ;)
(System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode/.Decode seem unavailable. This will be a web-browser app btw).
var sendMe = yourstring.Replace("&", "& amp ;").Replace("<", & lt ;").Replace(">",& gt ;").Replace("\"", "& quot ;");
I was hoping for something 'cleaner', like a library call. This will work in a pinch though, thanks
