For PHP, try htmlentities().
http://us4.php.net/htmlentities

You can decode (turn entities back into the equivalent characters) with 
html_entity_decode().
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

alex

Joseph Sinclair wrote:

> That was my point with the libraries, There are libraries available 
> for most languages (I think Perl has one) with methods that will take 
> an arbitrary input string, and return the same string HTML escaped.
> Something like this (obviously non-Perl) example should be available:
>  String HTMLString = escapeStringForHTML(SQLString);
>
> That provides a solution you can use anytime you need to output 
> complex strings in HTML, not just this one time.
>
> ==Joseph++
>
> Craig White wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 22:27 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
>>  
>>
>> <<SNIP>>
>>
>> ----
>> got that - my problem is my 'string' already exists and is built and is
>> used in the source php file. To use your html example (and thanks for
>> the effort), I would have to rebuild the string for a second time to
>> pass it through - I was specifically trying to avoid that. In fact, if I
>> were to rebuild the string a second time, it would make more sense from
>> a number of standpoints to send the string and the variable through the
>> POST into the target php file and rebuild it there.
>>
>> Craig
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