[MacPerl] YA FA Yet Stupid Question

[Chilton Webb <chilton@tca.net>]

I know this doesn't deal with MacPerl, but it does deal with security in 
the (new) MacPerl section at DevHQ, and I need a quick answer.

I've noticed that the semicolon character (;) can be used to send 
commands to the server in cases where the server is a unix machine and 
the argument in the url is sent directly to a unix function. 

Is there a way to capture and remove that character from a string? I've 
tried...

 $url =~ s/\;/<BR>/g;

But this doesn't work at all. And searching the pods for the word 
semicolon didn't turn up anything, and I'm not about to go searching them 
for every actual semicolon :)

Quick answer, anyone?

-Chilton

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