| Re: strip_tags function [message #178773 is a reply to message #178772] |
Tue, 31 July 2012 19:37   |
Tim Fardell
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:30:54 -0400, Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net>
wrote:
> On 7/31/2012 3:17 PM, Tim Fardell wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:42:59 +0200, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
>> <PointedEars(at)web(dot)de> wrote:
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> <snip>
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>>>> >
>>>> > You are not making sense. The *input* data should *never* be "HTML
>>>> > encoded".
>>
>> Wait, didn't you just say the opposite? If the input is not HTML-encoded then it
>> is *critical* that any '<' character which does not form part of a tag is
>> ignored. It is not, as my example above proves.
>>
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> Tim,
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> You should have stopped right here. "Pointed Head" is a well known
> troll in several newsgroups. He doesn't understand it is completely
> valid to have HTML encoded strings - for instance, when using cURL to
> retrieve a web page.
Ah - that explains it :-)
I did wonder to be honest, which is why I didn't reply for a couple of days, but
it got the better of me and I just *had* to respond in the end.
I'll leave it there - apologies for feeding the troll.
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