Update: Modified nearly wholesale given understanding granted by other posts

So, tests done on a generic Perl CGI engine:

http://bhmk.com/cgi-bin/testcgiparm.pl?file=test%3bfoo=2848
      Parameter    Value
file test;foo=2848

http://bhmk.com/cgi-bin/testcgiparm.pl?file=test;foo=2848
      Parameter    Value
file test
foo 2848

http://bhmk.com/cgi-bin/testcgiparm.pl?file=test&foo=2848
      Parameter    Value
file test
foo 2848

http://bhmk.com/cgi-bin/testcgiparm.pl?file=test\;foo=2848
      Parameter    Value
file test\
foo 2848

So I'm afraid I don't understand the problem.

The CGI script which generated this these results is behind the readmoretag below. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use CGI;

{
     my $query = CGI::new();
     my @frmprm = $query->param;
     my $prmcnt = @frmprm;

     print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
     print "<HTML>\n";
     print "<TITLE>Perl CGI Parameter Test Script Results</TITLE>\n";
     print "<BODY>\n";
     print "<P><FONT SIZE=\"+2\" FACE=\"Arial\"><B>Perl CGI Parameter 
+Test Script Results</B></FONT>\n";
     print "<P>You have successfully launched the Perl CGI Parameter t
+est.\n";
     print "<P>\n";
     print "  <TABLE>\n";
     print "    <TR>\n";
     my $spntxt=' ';
     if ($prmcnt) {
          my $spncnt = $prmcnt + 1;
          $spntxt = " ROWSPAN=$spncnt";
     }
     print "      <TD$spntxt >&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>\n";
     if (!$prmcnt) {
          print "      <TD VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT>\n";
          print "        <I>(No parameters were passed)</I>\n";
          print "      </TD>\n";
     } else {
          print "      <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B><U>Parameter</U></
+B></TD>\n";
          print "      <TD$spntxt >&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>\n";
          print "      <TD ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><B><U>Value</U></B></
+TD>\n";
          foreach my $frmprm (@frmprm) {
               my $prmval = $query->param($frmprm);
               print "    </TR>\n";
               print "    <TR>\n";
               print "      <TD VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT><TT>$frmprm</TT>
+</TD>\n";
               print "      <TD VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT><TT>$prmval</TT>
+</TD>\n";
          }
     }
     print "    </TR>\n";
     print "  </TABLE>\n";
     print "<P>User your browser BACK button to return.\n";
     print "</BODY>\n";
     print "</HTML>\n";
}

exit;

__END__

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In reply to Re: How to use cgi param() to read unescaped url parameters by marinersk
in thread How to use cgi param() to read unescaped url parameters by invader7

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