in reply to Re: CGI-encoded quote characters
in thread CGI-encoded quote characters

If you are already parsing the parameters with CGI it does it automatically.

I tend to do $cgi->Vars() which returns a hash of all parameters to the script. It returns the parameters of the query string if it is a GET or the form if it is a POST. I wrote a little test script:

#!/usr/bin/perl 

use CGI;
my $cgi = new CGI;
my %form = $cgi->Vars();

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "<html><body>\n";

foreach my $key(keys %form) {
    print "$key = $form{$key}<br>\n";
}
print "</body></html>\n";
exit;

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I fed it this url:
urltest.cgi?param=%22something%22¶m2=something_else

It printed "something" something_else. The point is that CGI will handle this automatically.

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Re: Re: Re: CGI-encoded quote characters
by projekt21 (Friar) on Oct 11, 2001 at 13:00 UTC

    If you reread the question, you will see, that Anonymous Monk asked for tips to ENCODE the query string...

    alex pleiner <alex@zeitform.de>
    zeitform Internet Dienste

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      Doh!! I thought he wanted to decode it, oh well disregard my above post! :)
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