The whole SurveySubmit sub was an attempt to fix the initial problem. It appeared to me at the time that the reason the single quotes were screwing things up was because they weren't being escaped. You could bypass the whole sub but the results would be essentially the same. I assume (maybe erroneously) that double escapement didn't cause any noticeable problems. At least when I unescaped the data in the Perl CGI, I didn't get anything that appeared to be corrupted. Then again, I might have luckily bypassed circumstances that could have led to data corruption.

It's ironic that the post was not OT at all. It was poor Perl programming that caused it. It just wasn't obvious at first.

--Jim

In reply to Re: Re: Re: (OT) TEXTAREA and the Single Quote by jlongino
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