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Is there a way to, in as little code as possible, to filter a string for both SQL injection and the most common forms of attack? In my scripts I'm using the following, I would like to know whether it's reasonably safe and whether someone else has a suggestion: $cleanName = htmlspecialchars(addslashes($dirtyName)); See how I filtered it both for html chars and for quotes and double-quotes. NOTE: I'm using addslashes() rather than mysql_real_escape_string() because I don't want to hardcode the DB I'm using into my code. Is this ok? Thanks in advance Probably not... you need to escape your raw

Hi I am trying to create a program to create a new object whenever the user inputs a new information for a certain object. Currently I have this. import java.util.Scanner; public class Main { public static void main (String args[]) { String input; Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in); do { System.out.println("Computer Menu"); System.out.println("1. Add a new Desktop Information"); System.out.println("2. Add a new Laptop Information"); System.out.println("3. Display all Computer Information"); System.out.println("4. Quit"); System.out.print("Please enter either 1 to 4: "); input =(scanner

This question already has an answer here: Asking the user for input until they give a valid response 18 answers In python, I'm asking the user to input an office code location which needs to be in the format: XX-XXX (where the X's would be letters) How can I ensure that their input follows the format, and if it doesn't ask them to input the office code again? Thanks! The standard (and language-agnostic) way of doing that is by using regular expressions : import re re.match('^[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{3}$', some_text) The above example returns True (in fact, a "truthy" return value, but you can pretend it

Still trying to understand python. It is so different than php. I set the choice to integer, the problem is on my menu I need to use letters as well. How can I use integer and string together? Why can I not set to string than integer? def main(): # Display the main menu while True: print print " Draw a Shape" print " ============" print print " 1 - Draw a triangle" print " 2 - Draw a square" print " 3 - Draw a rectangle" print " 4 - Draw a pentagon" print " 5 - Draw a hexagon" print " 6 - Draw an octagon" print " 7 - Draw a circle" print print " D - Display what was drawn" print " X - Exit"

I'm writing a batch file that launch an application. app.exe After the application is launched, I'm getting a list of options in the console, and the program waits for input, for example: a: start session b: end session c: end How do I make the batch type a ? David R Tribble Other than using echo as @npclaudiu suggested, you could also write the expected input to a text file and then have the app read the file: app.exe <input.txt This works if the app expects more than one line of input. First, make sure if the application supports command line arguments. For example, at your command prompt,

I am trying to accomplish a way to spawn a thread that waits for user input; if no input is entered within 10 seconds, I want the script to kill off the spawned thread and continue processing. I've got a way to get the input back from the thread if text is entered but I have no way to let the timeout kill off the newly spawned thread. In the example below is the closest I have come. I tell the newly created thread that it is a daemon and it will exit when the main script exits. The issue that I have with this is that the thread will continue to wait until either the script exits, or the user