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Re: "Correct" program style questions

by joe++ (Friar)
on Oct 23, 2002 at 18:15 UTC ( [id://207480]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to "Correct" program style questions

Hi Ovid,

I would personally rather not import anything in my namespace, but use the OO interface instead. This is a matter of taste, but anyway this would be "my coding style":

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT use strict; use CGI; my $cgi = new CGI; my $_name = $cgi->param('name') || ''; ...
I know, this isn't going to work with HTML::Entities, but I made the lucky choice to use UTF-8 as encoding for our webpages, so no character escaping necessary (unless your input charset isn't UTF-8, but that's another story about Text::Iconv).

Otherways, I like the POSIX character classes (even more when we're talking UTF-8 and international users). I still use those old fashioned ranges like [a-zA-Z] however, 'cause we are still on 5.00_03 on our production servers blush ;-)

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Re: Re: "Correct" program style questions
by Ovid (Cardinal) on Oct 23, 2002 at 19:00 UTC

    joe++ wrote: I know, [not importing anything] isn't going to work with HTML::Entities....

    Actually, it can work with HTML::Entities. Merely specify an empty import list and fully qualify the function name.

    use HTML::Entities (); HTML::Entities::encode_entities( $name );

    Alternatively, you could simply require HTML::Entities and not call the import method.

    Cheers,
    Ovid

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