Re: Help with Perl for the Net

I do agree with athomason, but if you only need to access from some cgi the "some=thing" part of the URL you have the environment variable QUERY_STRING, which you can access from perl with $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}.
marcos

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RE:(2) Help with Perl for the Net by swiftone (Curate) on Jun 22, 2000 at 20:51 UTC
Don't forget that QUERY_STRING will be URL encoded. (spaces become +, non-word characters become %(hex values)) , which is why CGI.pm is generally used to decode the various possibilities. Nonetheless, sometimes you want a "clean" URL, such as www.mypage.com/detail.cgi?5 , so you can use QUERY_STRING to check that. Note also that you can use QUERY_STRING while using CGI.pm to handle other aspects of CGI programming.	[reply]

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RE:(2) Help with Perl for the Net
by swiftone (Curate) on Jun 22, 2000 at 20:51 UTC

Don't forget that QUERY_STRING will be URL encoded. (spaces become +, non-word characters become %(hex values)) , which is why CGI.pm is generally used to decode the various possibilities. Nonetheless, sometimes you want a "clean" URL, such as www.mypage.com/detail.cgi?5 , so you can use QUERY_STRING to check that. Note also that you can use QUERY_STRING while using CGI.pm to handle other aspects of CGI programming.

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