Re^2: Can the "#" character be passed via $ENV{QUERY

You don't need to load all of CGI to do this if you are taking the whole QUERY_STRING as a single value. You can use URI:Escape directly. It is an extremely lightweight module. You'll want to use uri_unescape, like so:

    use URI::Escape qw(uri_unescape);
    my $query_string = uri_unescape $ENV{QUERY_STRING};
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Re^3: Can the "#" character be passed via $ENV{QUERY_STRING} ? by BUU (Prior) on Feb 25, 2005 at 06:46 UTC
Just to note, uri_unescape is functionally: `s/%(\d\d)/chr $1/eg;` if you don't even want to load the module.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Can the "#" character be passed via $ENV{QUERY_STRING} ? by mdillon (Priest) on Feb 25, 2005 at 14:42 UTC
I think that should be: `s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg` [download] In fact, that's pretty much exactly what's in URI::Escape, except that the module also handles scalar v. list context and multiple arguments. Using uri_unescape still seems preferable to me, since the resource overhead of using the module is basically nil and the mnemonic benefit of seeing uri_unescape instead of a regex is considerable.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Can the "#" character be passed via $ENV{QUERY_STRING} ? by BUU (Prior) on Feb 25, 2005 at 19:38 UTC
You know, you're completely correct, and that mostly proves your point about using a module. I theoretially knew what the proper code should be, but I wasn't paying attention and wrote something that was broken and didn't even think about it, the module would have been much easier.	[reply]
Re^6: Can the "#" character be passed via $ENV{QUERY_STRING} ? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 28, 2005 at 11:27 UTC


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