in reply to apostrophes and security

But these (for a true apostrophe) fail completely: 
    $_value =~ s/’/’/g;        # typed from keyboard
    $_value =~ s/%92/’/g;      # uri encoding
    $_value =~ s/’/’/g;  # should never work

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Try: $_value =~ s/\x92/’/g; though I'm surprised your first didn't work.

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Re^2: apostrophes and security
by deadnancy (Novice) on Aug 15, 2005 at 19:31 UTC
    YES!

    Exactly what I was looking for! It just never occurred to me to look into how perl deals with hex despite URI encoding being all about it...

    THANK YOU!

    DN
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