Questions tagged [escaping]
Escaping is the process of applying an alternate meaning to a character or set of characters.
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Wielding .NET masterfully to encode non-alphanumeric characters into utf-8 hex representation
I have these two methods that work, but I also hate because they almost certainly can be improved. I'm hoping to gain some guidance from others who are more knowledgable of .NET's offering for ...
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Parse string using character value for Unicode characters
I added the getCValue method to reduce the cyclomatic complexity, but the cyclomatic complexity still persists. How can I reduce it? Can I change this code using ...
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url encoding and storing (JS, PHP, MySQL) [closed]
This question is about how best to encode, send and store information between JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL
I am doing a GET request from HTML/JavaScript to my PHP server, which is then storing the data ...
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Ask for user input and again on the same line
A function that asks for user input according to some criteria and again on the same line if the criteria is not met. It requires that escape character sequences be enable.
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Golang - Splitting a string by a separator not prefixed by an escape string
I need to split a string by a separator but don't want to split if the separator is prefixed by the escape string.
For example:
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Method encodes all less than (<) characters in a HTML string, but not the HTML tags
I am cleaning a HTML string to encode the less than sign (<) to a HTML entity (<), but leaving the HTML tags as they are. An example is converting ...
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binary data shell echo generator
edit: here is a cleaned-up version incorporating most (but not all) feedback, thanks guys; https://gist.github.com/divinity76/79efd7b8c0d7849b956cd194659c98e5
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Escaping invalid XML characters (e.g. for the Java DOM API)
I want to save and load an arbitrary Java String in a Text node in a XML file using the Java DOM API.
The ...
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Rust echo implementation that supports command line options
I rewrote echo from the manpage to learn Rust, and got the following:
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POSIX+ implementations of echo(1)
Ever wanted a strictly conformant echo(1) implementation on your system? Wait no more: I've built it!
What is it?
My first large-ish body of C code in a while.
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PHP santization of textarea input
My application will accept textarea content that is submitted by a user, and i would like some people to review my code to make sure there is no security vulnerability such as XSS.
My mySQL column ...
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Unquoting booleans, numbers, etc. in a JSON string
I have a method that takes a JSON string as input and "fixes" it. By that, I mean, that the JSON string comes in with all values quoted. My method un-quotes the values that shouldn't be quoted (i.e. ...
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Balanced parenthesis, with backslash escaping
Given a Balanced Parenthesis problem.
"Balanced Parenthesis
Create a program that checks if in a given string expression all the parenthesis are balanced.
For Example:
(test) - valid
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htmlspecialchars() equivalent in C
I'm trying to write an equivalent of PHP's htmlspecialchars() in C. What is my implementation missing or doing wrong?
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Python program that obfuscates an email address
I decided to resume my (limited) Python skills after not coding for a long time.
Here's a very simple self-contained program to convert the characters of an email address into their HTML entities (...
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