From 7eceaf302a02b443fe656b026c93a6a83da0075a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cjwatson <>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 01:53:21 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [project @ 2002-10-31 01:53:21 by cjwatson] Stop using $`,
 $&, and $' in urlsanit() and htmlsanit().

---
 cgi/common.pl | 18 ++++--------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cgi/common.pl b/cgi/common.pl
index d4139ce6..1d42b720 100644
--- a/cgi/common.pl
+++ b/cgi/common.pl
@@ -217,25 +217,15 @@ sub urlsanit {
     $url =~ s/%/%25/g;
     $url =~ s/\+/%2b/g;
     my %saniarray = ('<','lt', '>','gt', '&','amp', '"','quot');
-    my $out;
-    while ($url =~ m/[<>&"]/) {
-        $out .= $`. '&'. $saniarray{$&}. ';';
-        $url = $';
-    }
-    $out .= $url;
-    return $out;
+    $url =~ s/([<>&"])/\&$saniarray{$1};/g;
+    return $url;
 }
 
 sub htmlsanit {
     my %saniarray = ('<','lt', '>','gt', '&','amp', '"','quot');
     my $in = shift || "";
-    my $out;
-    while ($in =~ m/[<>&"]/) {
-        $out .= $`. '&'. $saniarray{$&}. ';';
-        $in = $';
-    }
-    $out .= $in;
-    return $out;
+    $in =~ s/([<>&"])/\&$saniarray{$1};/g;
+    return $in;
 }
 
 sub bugurl {
-- 
2.39.5