How do I encode special characters into HTML encoding?
Some characters have special meanings in HTML, for example < and >. If you want these characters to be displayed in your browser you need to use the HTML encoding for them. For example, instead of < you use <. You may need to convert any ‘special’ characters in a string to be HTML encoded.
Solution 1
The module HTML::Entities provides a simple way of encoding (and decoding) a string:
This program produces the following output: