That looks suspiciously like a CGI parameter decoder.

I quite agree. And if the CGI module is overkill for the problem (since it does so many things), there are other more lightweight solutions, such as CGI::Deurl, which decodes the parameter strings in CGI requests, and that's all it does. Rose::URI and URI::QueryParam are worth having a look at as well. One is bound to find something that suits the problem domain.

And in regards to the OP, whatever solution is chosen, the exact mangling should be encapsulated in a subroutine, so that one calls:

  $name  = decode($name);
  $value = decode($value);

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This way, whatever solution you settle upon, it will be a simple matter to change it to something else when something better comes along, and you won't have to change the rest of your code.

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In reply to Re^2: Regular Confuscion by grinder
in thread Regular Confuscion by Imagist

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