OK OK. You guys win. You're right. I will not bother with the regex stuff and will used prepared statements. Thanks to all for your insistence. Better to do it right the first (well, second) time than to hack in something that'll have to be replaced and will probably cause more issues. 
        my $cgi = CGI->new();
        my %params = $cgi->Vars();

        #want to escape %params here

        my $escapedId           = $params{id};

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The keys and values in params will vary (ie, cannot always assume that "id" will be the name -- looking for a routine that's generic here). I order to prevent SQL injection, I need to escape any values in the %params that contain characters like '. Is there a simple way to go through params, and change all of the values inside of params? Edit: I know this is not perfect and that I should be using parameters -- just looking for something until a more permanent soultion is in place.

In reply to Escaping %params by DaisyLou

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