NAME

HTML::FormValidator::Filters - Basic set of filters available in an HTML::FormValidor profile.

SYNOPSIS

In an HTML::Empberl page:

use HTML::FormValidator;

my $validator = new HTML::FormValidator( "/home/user/input_profiles.pl" );
my ( $valid, $missing, $invalid, $unknown ) = $validator->validate(  \%fdat, "customer_infos" );

DESCRIPTION

These are the builtin filters which may be specified as name in the filters and field_filters parameters of the input profile.

trim

Remove white space at the front and end of the fields.

strip

Runs of white space are replaced by a single space.

digit

Remove non digits characters from the input.

alphanum

Remove non alphanumerical characters from the input.

integer

Extract from its input a valid integer number.

pos_integer

Extract from its input a valid positive integer number.

pos_integer

Extract from its input a valid negative integer number.

decimal

Extract from its input a valid decimal number.

pos_decimal

Extract from its input a valid positive decimal number.

neg_decimal

Extract from its input a valid negative decimal number.

dollars

Extract from its input a valid number to express dollars like currency.

phone

Filters out characters which aren't valid for an phone number. (Only accept digits [0-9], space, comma, minus, parenthesis, period and pound [#].)

sql_wildcard

Transforms shell glob wildcard (*) to the SQL like wildcard (%).

quotemeta

Calls the quotemeta (quote non alphanumeric character) builtin on its input.

lc

Calls the lc (convert to lowercase) builtin on its input.

uc

Calls the uc (convert to uppercase) builtin on its input.

ucfirst

Calls the ucfirst (Uppercase first letter) builtin on its input.

SEE ALSO

HTML::FormValidator(3) HTML::FormValidator::Constraints(3)

AUTHOR

Francis J. Lacoste <francis.lacoste@iNsu.COM>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1999,2000 iNsu Innovations Inc. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms as perl itself.