Kailua362,

A quick seach on Google leads me to think you've bought a copy of Perl & CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide. The author seems to mention CGI.pm, then proceeds to use a hand rolled parser, namely subparseform.lib. Furthermore, the author admits that subparseform.lib is less than optimal in that it doesn't handle "special characters" (e.g. @ $ < >) very well.

I'm hoping the author is using a simple CGI parser for illustrative reasons only and recommends using CGI.pm for everything else. If the author doesn't stress CGI.pm, I'd suggest taking a look at Ovid's "Web Programming Using Perl" Course. It's all online and it's free.

CGI.pm is the industry standard, is a part of the standard Perl installation, and most importantly it is safe and it works.

Aloha and Cheers!

Brent

-- Yeah, I'm a Delt.

Update: For a more complete discussion of why one should avoid using something besides CGI.pm, you should really look at this thread: use CGI or die.

In reply to Re: Differences between MAC and PC by dorko
in thread Differences between MAC and PC by Kailua362

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