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## #!/usr/bin/perl --
## ro-sham-bo.pl
## 
## 2014-07-07-00:03:20
## 
## 
## perltidy -olq  -csc -csci=10 -cscl="sub : BEGIN END if " -otr -opr 
+-ce -nibc -i=4 -pt=0   "-nsak=*"
#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw/ escapeHTML /;

Main( @ARGV );
exit( 0 );

sub Main {
    my $row_hashref = { qw/ ro <row> sham "shammy" bo 'peep' /, @ARGV 
+};
    my $html        = bunchesOfTextBoxes( $row_hashref );
    print $html;
}

sub bunchesOfTextBoxes {
    my( $nameVals ) = @_;
    my $html = "";
    while( my( $name, $value ) = each %$nameVals ) {
        $name  = escapeHTML( $name );
        $value = escapeHTML( $value );
        $html .= qq{<input name="$name" value="$value">\n};
    }
    return $html;
} ## end sub bunchesOfTextBoxes
__END__
$ perl ro-sham-bo.pl shama lamma king kong
<input name="ro" value="&lt;row&gt;">
<input name="king" value="kong">
<input name="shama" value="lamma">
<input name="bo" value="&#39;peep&#39;">
<input name="sham" value="&quot;shammy&quot;">

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input

https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI#Creating-a-text-field

In reply to Re: How to get input text boxes populated by Anonymous Monk
in thread How to get input text boxes populated by terrykhatri

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