Form Regex

form regex to exclude "/" text character

[colintho]

Not sure if this is the right place for this post?

How do I use "form regex" to exclude a text character, forward slash "/" from text entered into a database field?

[lexipixel]

More likely what you want to do is substitute the '/' character using a $var =~ s///; construct after parsing the form data.

EXAMPLE #1:

#
$datastring = 'this has a / in it';
$datastring =~ s/\// /g;
#
print $datastring;
#

SHOULD PRODUCE OUTPUT: this has a in it

~~~ OR ~~~~

EXAMPLE #2:

#
$datastring = 'this has a / in it';
$datastring =~ s/\//_/g;
#
print $datastring;
#

SHOULD PRODUCE OUTPUT: this has a _ in it