Acme::Addslashes - Perl twist on the most useful PHP function ever - addslashes
Do you have some text? Have you ever wanted to add some slashes to it? Well now you can!
PHP has a totally awesome addslashes() function - http://php.net/addslashes.
addslashes()
PERL has long been lacking such a function, and at long last here it is. Of course the PERL version is better. Here is a run down of what's better in PERL:
Thanks to unicode, PERL's version doesn't have this limitation. We add slashes directly to the characters. Isn't that cool?
Why not add slashes to all characters? More slashes directly equals safer code. That is scientific fact. There is no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact.
UPDATE Now with extra long slashes for even more protection! Thanks ~SKINGTON!
use Acme::Addslashes qw(addslashes); my $unsafe_string = "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--"; my $totally_safe_string = addslashes($unsafe_string); # $totally_safe_string now contains: # R̸o̸b̸e̸r̸t̸'̸)̸;̸ ̸D̸R̸O̸P̸ ̸T̸A̸B̸L̸E̸ ̸S̸t̸u̸d̸e̸n̸t̸s̸;̸-̸-̸ # If that's not enough slashes to be safe, I don't know what is
my $totally_safe_string = addslashes("Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--");
The only function exported by this module. Will literally add slashes to anything.
Letters, numbers, punctuation, whitespace, unicode symbols. You name it, this function can add a slash to it.
Will return you a utf8 encoded string containing your original string, but with enough slashes added to make Freddy Krueger jealous.
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James Aitken <jaitken@cpan.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by James Aitken.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install Acme::Addslashes, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Acme::Addslashes
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Acme::Addslashes
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.