CGI::Untaint::printable
validate as a printable value
- Provided by: libcgi-untaint-perl (Version: 1.26-7)
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validate as a printable value
my $name = $handler->extract(-as_printable => 'name');
This Input Handler verifies that it is dealing with an 'printable' string i.e. characters in the range \040-\377 (plus \r and \n).
The empty string is taken to be printable.
This is occasionally a useful 'fallback' pattern, but in general you will want to write your own patterns to be stricter.