i'm using the HTML::Entities module to parse some characters for our content management system, although now I've shot myself in the foot, since we allow html to be inputed into the forms, HTML::Entities likes to take these characters - >,<,", ' and & that have special meaning and convert them to their entities, which is what it's supposed to do but I want it to do everything but those.

The docs do point out that you can pass a list of unsafe characters to the script, but I kinda want the opposite, I want to pass the safe characters to the script, since the list is much smaller ;)

Can anyone help me with how to pass all the unsafe characters i want parsed execpt the ones above? it would seem that this is a probelm someone else has come across,

cheers

-justin simoni
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