HTML::Escape(3pm)

✨ HTML::Escape ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this is <plug> HTML::Escape and it is lowkey one of the fastest little things you will ever meet 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

HTML::Escape — extremely fast HTML escaping. that's it. that's the whole vibe. no cap, it just escapes and it does it fast 💅

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

the whole thing is literally this, bestie:

use HTML::Escape qw/escape_html/;

my $escaped = escape_html("<^o^>");

like... that's it. you import escape_html, you hand it a lil string, it hands you back a safe string. iconic behaviour honestly 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this module gives you a function that escapes HTML's special characters 🦋 it does basically the same job as PHP's htmlspecialchars. it escapes these characters right here:

" & ' < > ` { }

and the way that it's fast is that it uses XS for better performance 🔥 but — and this is the cute part — it also ships a pure perl version too, so if XS isn't your thing you're still covered, bestie 🫶

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💜 FAQ 💜

is there also an unescape_html?

No. 😭

unescaping HTML requires a lot of code, and we don't want to do it. so we simply don't. please use HTML::Entities for it instead — that's what it's there for 🙈

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👑 BENCHMARK 👑

the receipts ✨:

                         Rate HTML::Entities   HTML::Escape
HTML::Entities 14.0/s             --           -91%
HTML::Escape    150/s           975%             --

975% faster. i'm not saying a word. i'm just leaving that there. 💀🔥

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

• Goro Fuji
• Tokuhiro Matsuno <tokuhirom AAJKLFJEF@ GMAIL COM>

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Text::Xslate
• HTML::Entities

iykyk 👑

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🌸 LICENSE 🌸

Copyright (C) Tokuhiro Matsuno

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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okay that's the whole page babes 🥰 go forth and escape responsibly. this has been User Contributed Perl Documentation for HTML::Escape, brought to you by perl v5.42.3 on 2026-08-19 — mwah, slay, periodt 💅💖✨