HTML::Escape3pm

Usage

    use HTML::Escape qw/escape_html/;
    my $escaped = escape_html("<^o^>");

Overview

This modules provides a function which escapes HTML's special characters. It performs a similar function to PHP's htmlspecialchars. It escapes the following characters:

    " & ' < > ` { }

This module uses XS for better performance, but it also provides a pure perl version.

Faq

Is there also an unescape_html?

No. Unescaping HTML requires a lot of code, and we don't want to do it. Please use HTML::Entities for it.

Benchmark

                     Rate HTML::Entities   HTML::Escape
    HTML::Entities 14.0/s             --           -91%
    HTML::Escape    150/s           975%             --