URI::Escape can be used to escape and unescape "special" characters in URI's.

URI::Escape should be used to escape and unescape "special" characters in URI's query strings. :)

Just me being quite picky (hey, I just got home from work at 3:30AM. I'm allowed to be picky {grin}). All I mean here is that URI::Escape should always be used if you are planning on passing anything more trivial than "a=bc" as a query string. Also note that URI::Escape should only be used on the query string, not the entire URI. So you'd do this:

print 'http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=', uri_escape('Am I #1? 
+Yeah!');
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rather than this:

print uri_escape('http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Am I #1? Yeah
+!');
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Why? Because the latter will also escape the colon, slashes, the question marks, and even that '=' sign (I hate that last one). The annoying thing I find about URI::Escape is the fact that you have to be careful what part of the query string you pass it, as it will sometimes give undesired results. I already know that you knew that steves, just me being picky and trying to clarify something that might already be clear to readers :). ++ to you for recommending the right module for the job :)

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