Re: Trying to write a CGI script for this piece of HTML

I agree with IlyaM and couldn't have put it much better myself. However if you really want to unencode urls right this bit of code.

# This is from the CGI programming with perl book on page 21

sub url_decode {
    my $text = shift();
    $text =~ tr/\+/ /;
    $text =~ s/%([a-f0-9][a-f0-9])/chr( hex( $1 ) )/eg;
}
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Edited by footpad, ~Tue Nov 27 06:31:02 2001 GMT

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Re: Re: Trying to write a CGI script for this piece of HTML by chromatic (Archbishop) on Nov 27, 2001 at 08:50 UTC
Read a little further down the page, where it suggests that not only can the HTTP standard for URIs change, it has done so in the past. Using URI::Escape is a more robust solution.	[reply]