I'm trying to find some existing way to simply add a parameter (name=value) pair to a user-defined URL. I have a function that accepts a URL, a name, and a value, and I want to append the name=value pair to that URL (not the url returned by CGI::self_url) and return the new URL to the user. I haven't seen any existing way to do this - does anyone know of a way to easily do this, or do I have to write up something new?
I'm not sure if its sufficient to simply append the string '&name=value' to a URL containing a '?', or attach '?name=value' to a URL without a '?' - if it is I could obviously write my own subroutine faster than I've written this message. The subroutine needs to work for any valid URL.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Leigh

In reply to Adding param to a specified URL by maltesehamster

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