Heya Monks,

this may be just a stupid question but I couldn't find any solution for it so far... Basically I have a HTML form with a textarea you can copy anything you like into. The text is transferred via post method and then I want it to be displayed. So far so easy... But now I copy for example something like a whole Perl Script into the textarea. After clicking on submit Perl now starts to execute the contents of the textarea. My question is: How can I just display the text without Perl trying to execute it? Basically... how did they do it on this very website here with the \<code\> tags?
Just try using the sample script and copy the source code of the sample script into the textarea field in your browser.

Sample script: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser/;

my $cgi = CGI->new();
print   $cgi->header, # create the HTTP header
        $cgi->start_html(-title=>"Test",
        -author=>'webmaster at digioso.org');

if($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'GET')
{
    print qq{<form action = "textareatest.pl" name = "form" method = "
+post">
                <textarea name = "text" cols = "50" rows = "10"></text
+area><br/>
                <input type = "submit"/>
             </form>};
}
elsif($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST')
{
    my $text = $cgi->param('text');
    print qq{$text<br/>};
}
else
{
    print "Unknown request method!<br/>";
}

print "</body></html>";
exit 0;

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